COPROLALIA.

I am so pleased that jfaraujo has chosen a more classy word than usual.

For those of us, like me, who have a chemical bent, it is an absolute gift.

(If you don’t know this idiomatic phrase, “A chemical bent”, it is an L-shaped U-tube, which can be used as a pipette!)

‘Copro’, is of course, back-street Latin for the chemical word, ‘cupro’= ‘a line of cups’.

In its early days, as their opening song, the Mothers’ Union used to sing “The Hokey Cokey”.

This was considered too frivolous, so it was changed to “Viva Espana”, to accommodate European Members.

This “Viva” song has a complete verse of ¯ “Laa, laa, ¯ la, la, la, la, laaa”¯.

In musical parlance, this is referred to, as “Lalia”, a term from the musical world, similar to Vilja; Vontja; and Pizzacato.