An abuse of wordsmiths walk into a bar

I have of late and wherefore I know not lost all my command of the English language. I am rapidly gaining  the reputation as somebody who is guilty of now bludgeoning  the English language.
 
Prior to this latest development, I was referred to as somewhat of a wordsmith (which obviously comes from the word blacksmith!) – and as you will find out I am more accurately a wordsmith than others who claim to be a wordsmith!
 
One of the moments where I have perhaps used the wrong words was when I first started at East Coast Radio and was trying to explain/create a picture (with words, on air!) of a really big, hairy and sweaty traffic cop and described him as a ‘burlesque traffic cop’. 

He would be a remarkable traffic cop – if he was burlesque - he would have to have a feather boa and fishnet stockings which in itself would have been worth remarking upon! And for that reason alone – still just as good as the original Burly traffic cop. 

And then the other day I was trying to refer to one of the many big words that I had used – such as circumnavigate, asservation and caucus.  The rest of the team registered their shock at the words – actually not shock – more like disdain and confusion and so I apologised for using  - and I meant to say polysyllabic which is a word which comes from two words…poly which means many and then syllabic which is those-beats-in-a-word-broken-up-by-vowels.
 
But instead of saying polysyllabic, it came out as polysyballic.  I knew what I was saying in fact – everyone knew what I was saying and so here we come back to what I meant when I said that I am a wordsmith.
 
People think that wordsmith means an expert with words…no, no, no – let’s go back to what a blacksmith means.  People think a blacksmith is an expert in metallurgy.  

The derivation of the word blacksmith actually comes from the word black – which was the colour of the metal once it had been heated and cooled in water – a film of black coated the metal.  

Smith came from smite which is to hit with a hard blow.  So the blacksmith got his name not from being an expert at metallurgy but because he beat the black metal – moulding and creating the metal into a form he could use and THAT is my personal treatment of the English language and words.  

I do occasionally beat, bend and mould words to fit into the story I am trying to communicate. Let us not forget that Shakesperae himself was a wordsmith of note often inventing words that he would only ever use once.
 
So within this context, I am glad to count myself as a proud wordsmith!