silly amusement

[derien]

20 obsolete English words that should make a comeback. I wonder how many of these were invented by some particular author and actually never caught on? "Deliciate" sounds invented.

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[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Of all those words, "deliciate" is the one I've seen used (in 19th century novels of a purple-prosed hue).

[ironicbees.livejournal.com]

Damn fine words, those. I'm tempted to add about half of them to my personal vocabulary.

Have you ever seen the Forgotten English word-a-day calendar? I've had a couple of them, and I wrote down all of the words and definitions, so now I have a mini dictionary of archaic English. :D

[derien.livejournal.com]

That's the one word that sounded as though I may have heard it, too, but I can't prove it. No, wait, I lie - I'm pretty sure I've heard or read 'brannigan.' Seems to me that would be considered racist, now!

[derien.livejournal.com]

I had not seen it, but now I'm tempted to create my own mini-dictionary. I have this itty-bitty book on a keychain which a co-worker gave me. I wrote a few haikus about security screening rules in it, but it's mostly unused.

Now I'm thinking haiku that uses archaic words... hm...