Tell a loved one they’re the kipper’s knickers, gongoozle at your cup of tea and enjoy a much happier New Year: How using more positive words can make you feel good for the year ahead, writes SUSIE DE
Positive words can make us happier and healthier by raising our feel-good hormones and lowering the stress-inducing ones. While every office has a 'catch-fart': a fawning flatterer who will do anything to get ahead and so follows the political wind. The fact is that by choosing a positive word over a negative one, we can actively reframe the way we view ourselves and the world. I recommend that anyone dreading the return to work should simply tell their boss that they have a terrible grumbling in their arseropes. The next time your work colleague waffles on about something utterly irrelevant you can simply mutter the word 'flapdoodler'.
Source: Daily Mail December 27, 2025 20:13 UTC
