[Right-wing Librarian]

That title sounds like something I would have purchased for my library (before I retired). I love interesting language!

[nopardons]

It's a lovely little book, but as I stated, not only do I use most of the words and phrases and don't find any of then "odd" nor "out of date", I suppose that many others might. OTOH...I did learn some new words and phrases and what matters more, learned the derivations of things I already knew and used. :-)

I LOVE words and always have. Sadly, today, most people have a very small vocabulary.