Very Drear

Banana.

Isn't it funny how dreary is such on ordinary, unremarkable sort of a word, and drear is so quaint? Only people who talk like Celia Johnson say drear, but stick a y on the end and it becomes perfectly normal.

I think I'm going to start saying it more, in my best Celia Johnson; after all it's November in Edinburgh, and November in Edinburgh is so often very drear.