Forgotten Words
7Thursday 10 October, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Languages change, sure, we’ve all heard the reports of ‘new words’ being added year on year into well known and respected dictionaries, but how many are removed?
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Do I really care, probably not. But every now and then, one stumbles across a word or two that you hardly ever hear. Crap; does that mean Uncle Spike is getting a bit old in the tooth, and will become known as Grandpa Spike pretty soon??
Anyway, my ‘forgotten words’ for today are:-
Flummoxed
Befuddled
Shan’t
Dumbfounded
Tickety-boo
Flabbergasted
Jiggered
Am I alone on this? Are we losing our language, or it a steady ‘progression’, or am I just getting past it? Answers on a postcard (whatever one of those is!)…
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I keep threatening to give my friend’s child a thesaurus for Christmas because his vocabulary is so lacking. I had to explain the word irksome to him.
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Haha, sad ‘innit’… 😀
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Three of the words mentioned are still alive and living in the English language.
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I’m sure, but still it’s sad that irrespective of what might be still ‘in the dictionary’, nobody uses the language.
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I agree with ya, Unc. It seems we are either creating new words or condensing our vocabulary into but a few terms! In fact, I believe “srsly” is now an official word in most dictionaries 😛
I’m just glad the “epic” era is coming to an end… WIN! Whatever happened to jolly good, wot wot.
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Haha, lol etc etc… couldn’t agree more. Seems a shame – perhaps I’m just getting old 😀
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Oh my, I actually used tickety-boo in a comment I posted recently! I love words and always want to know the etymology because quite often the meaning has changed over the years, like the word gay for example, there is a richness in words, they have power and yes, I worry too that a lot of that is going to be lost with all the txtspeak that youngsters use these days, henceforth I shall be known as Granny Rae!!
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