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Good words that have gone out of fashion.
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Sean, the English guy on The Apprentice this season, tried to use the word "whilst" on a poster a couple of weeks ago, in the context of "whilst supplies last". His American teammates had to gently remind him that we don't use that word here... we prefer "while".
As Eddie Izzard said (and I paraphrase), "Americans spell 'through' t-h-r-u, and I'm with you on that. We spell it t-h-r-o-u-g-h... and that's cheating at Scrabble."
As Eddie Izzard said (and I paraphrase), "Americans spell 'through' t-h-r-u, and I'm with you on that. We spell it t-h-r-o-u-g-h... and that's cheating at Scrabble."
mad jew said:Maybe it's because I'm esoteric or because I watch Madagascar too often, but I use that most days too.
Esoteric. Few people understand what the word means.
Which is ironic, considering that it means "intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest"... such as, the knowledge of what "esoteric" means.IJ Reilly said:
mad jew said:
neoteric way of thinking?
good words that have gone out of fashion.... um... spiffy?
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IJ Reilly said:
My mom uses that word all the time.
What about:
Salutations
My Bad (well, I never liked that one)
Ditto (that was really....lame)
Gee
Gee Whiz
Gee Willickers
"Why I oughta ______"
Slug (as in punch)
Say (as in "Say, I have an idea")
Golly
Nancy Boy
and my favorite
Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker
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Meretricious is also an impressive word. Has the same irony as esoteric.
iBlue said:neoteric way of thinking?
good words that have gone out of fashion.... um... spiffy?
Ooh, fashion words that have gone out of fashion:
natty
snazzy
dapper
sartorial
CompUser said:
The name of an actual bird, which is probably only out of fashion if you don't happen to be one.
A truly beautiful, under-utlized, rarely spoken, bedazzled word of such aesthetic quality as to be multi-facted in its attractiveness, is the language construction, composed of letters summing to a word situated as a unit of meaning (in a given, standardized, overarching systemized series of utterances and compositional grammar and grammars) is pleonasm.
It was once the name of my fantasy baseball team, too.
Ooh. And I really like paroxysm, too.
Such that, "There is no doubt that this post has caused paroxysms in some."
It was once the name of my fantasy baseball team, too.
Ooh. And I really like paroxysm, too.
Such that, "There is no doubt that this post has caused paroxysms in some."
How about words that you'd like to go out of fashion?
Like "hella". One of the banes of northern California existence.
*shudder*
Like "hella". One of the banes of northern California existence.
*shudder*
Some of my favorites are: methinks, mayhaps, bubkis, and spiffy. All of which I use on a regualr basis.
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