'medley' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as both a noun and a verb, meaning a combination of different things (usually music) or to mix different things together. For example, you could say: "The band performed a medley of classic rock songs."
Friends and colleagues would assume I was sulking – fretful about the budget, the traffic or the possibility that David Beckham would end up trotting around a football pitch for one last medley of complaints to the referee, misplaced passes and light tapping of the ankles of agile opponents as they raced by our national icon.
Inside the hall, enormous US and Australian flags bookended either side of the stage, and a unconventional medley of country music and Stevie Wonder songs pealed from speakers.
The medley is a dying (or perhaps dead) art, isn't it?
His motto is: "If life gives you lemons, dress those lemons in a badly-fitting disco catsuit and make them bongo their way through an ill-advised medley of Love Shack and the Ghostbusters soundtrack".
Lochte finished third in the 200m backstroke and then got blitzed by Phelps in the 200m individual medley.
It wouldn't be a salad bar medley without potato salad.
Click here to watch Thicke clings onto some sense of class by performing a big band version of Blurred Lines, after a medley of Chicago's Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is? and Beginnings, along with frontman and keyboardist Robert Lamm.
Those implicated in the gay lobby constituted an odd medley.
He recommended replacing the current medley with a single diploma.
Much will also depend on Saab's ability to produce distinctive cars assembled from a medley of components bought from suppliers.
Mr Ghosh's genius is to paint this world from its teeming heart, rather than from the perspective of metropolitan centres of power in London or, for that matter, Peking.Furnivall was in fact a critic of the plural society: he called it "in the strictest sense a medley" in which different races "mix but do not combine.
