18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style

Death and Taxes ^ | March 8, 2013 | Carmel Lobello

[EveningStar]

Just like facts and flies, English words have life-spans. Some are thousands of years old, from before English officially existed, others change, or are replaced or get ditched entirely.

Here are 18 uncommon or obsolete words that we think may have died early. We found them in two places: a book called "The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten" by Jeffrey Kacirk, and on a blog called Obsolete Word of The Day that's been out of service since 2010. Both are fantastic- you should check them out.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Pussyvan:"

That is what my dad called my 73' Chevy G20

Mine had the extended body...

[Windflier]

Spermophile is a Ground Squirrel.

Good to know. I might have easily thought it was something else!

[jocon307]

“I remember “right” and “wrong,” from back in the day.”

Very good.

[GSWarrior]

Ever play Balderdash?

[oblomov]

You have made a good case. Agreed. Thanks.

[imardmd1]

Let me suggest that your assumptions are not correct.

!1) For "sneak," the accepted past tense is "sneaked"; "snuck" is a dialect and vulgar, and is not generally accepted as standard American or British English.

(2) "to bleed" is an irregular infinitive with the past tense being "bled"; using "bleeded" for the past tense indicates limited formal schooling.

(3) For "plead," both the regular "pleaded" and the irregular "pled" are commonly acceptable forms of the past tense.

So "sneaked, "pleaded," "pled," and "bled"are correct and acceptable insttances of the past tense; "snuck" and "bleeded" are not--they are degrees of dialect that ignore common usage.

You might want to revise your last, incorrect response in view of the above, eh? And regarding Noah Webster and his work that is continually being revised for accuracy, is not my "Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged)" (1981) a good and sufficient authority upon which to rely for the above statements?

[wintertime]

(2) “to bleed” is an irregular infinitive with the past tense being “bled”; using “bleeded” for the past tense indicates limited formal schooling.
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It is evidence of too much government formal schooling.

Being able to use bled, pled, pleaded, and sneaked correctly is evidence of homeschooling.

[imardmd1]

Being able to use bled, pled, pleaded, and sneaked correctly is evidence of homeschooling

Yeah! Rejoice with me, for of my one son's ten home-schooled children one young man is graduating from high school (the fourth to do so, this evening), while his older brother is graduating from engineering school with honors almost simultaneously.

Pray for my other son's fourth child (of five), my granddaughter, who last evening graduated from public high school--a child from a broken home.

Two of my daughter's four children are in public school yet, and two are attending college. All four endured Montessori/public school, but with much less lustrous experience than their home-trained cousins.

I've seen the story from both sides, and know anecdotally that well-done Christian home-schooling wins, hands down.