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Forgotten English
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I wasn't at work yesterday, and so missed out on...

Inkhornisms: Pedantic expressions which "smell of the lamp".

I don't know what "smell of the lamp" means, but essentially it was shoehorning a bunch of prefixes and suffixes together around a base word to make a new one. Apparently the longest still used is "incomprehensibility". #TIL

And of course, today's!

Atwape: to escape.

Ye olden folke were odd.

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Forgotten English - by Virginia Carmichael - January 28, 2019 – 3:07 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Aldous Crouch - February 1, 2019 – 12:46 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Minerva Nightly - February 5, 2019 – 12:44 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Ophelia Devine - February 5, 2019 – 3:27 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Aldous Crouch - February 5, 2019 – 3:30 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Elinor Goyle - February 19, 2019 – 12:25 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Aldous Crouch - March 1, 2019 – 1:49 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Aldous Crouch - March 7, 2019 – 7:34 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Idunn Fraser - April 1, 2019 – 1:37 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Aldous Crouch - April 5, 2019 – 3:46 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Aldous Crouch - April 15, 2019 – 11:21 AM
RE: Forgotten English - by Odira Keene - April 23, 2019 – 5:46 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Hamish Darrow - April 26, 2019 – 3:47 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Odira Keene - April 29, 2019 – 5:51 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Cyrus Westerman - May 2, 2019 – 10:58 AM
RE: Forgotten English - by Imogen Fox - May 6, 2019 – 11:10 AM
RE: Forgotten English - by Aldous Crouch - May 22, 2019 – 11:34 AM
RE: Forgotten English - by Aldous Crouch - May 27, 2019 – 2:12 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Imogen Fox - June 3, 2019 – 11:35 AM
RE: Forgotten English - by Odira Keene - June 11, 2019 – 11:21 AM
RE: Forgotten English - by Adam Ragge - June 14, 2019 – 2:23 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Blythe Fairchild - June 14, 2019 – 2:36 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Cyrus Westerman - June 20, 2019 – 12:04 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Idunn Fraser - June 24, 2019 – 11:31 AM
RE: Forgotten English - by George Waterford - June 27, 2019 – 11:47 AM
RE: Forgotten English - by Bellona Zabini - July 1, 2019 – 2:26 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Rufina Mulciber - July 3, 2019 – 1:40 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Cyrus Westerman - July 9, 2019 – 1:56 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Aldous Crouch - July 15, 2019 – 1:06 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Elinor Goyle - August 10, 2019 – 1:06 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Rufina Mulciber - August 12, 2019 – 1:06 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Roslyn Ross - August 15, 2019 – 2:29 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Idunn Fraser - August 24, 2019 – 5:37 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Julius Scrimgeour - August 31, 2019 – 12:35 PM
RE: Forgotten English - by Cyrus Westerman - September 30, 2019 – 5:18 PM
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