First post to my journal! (weekly words entry 1)

Jun 08, 2010 22:28

I have this awesome book The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten by Jeffery Kacirk. It has a bunch of super old words that have fallen out of use. There are some really cool ones, so I thought I'd start posting a couple every week or so.  I'm going alphabetically, but I'm not posting every word in the book, haha. Here's ( Read more... )

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ang_the_adverse June 9 2010, 17:41:47 UTC
Hello!
My english teacher has a book like that, she was going to read more but I think she forgot. Or I stopped going to her classes because they weren't compulsory . . .

I like alectromantia. But if I were a cock (*immature snort*) I would just eat in a circle. So the message would be "mnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijkl" (because I didn't start at 'a' because I'm a cock and I don't know where the alphabet starts.)

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imbusyreading June 10 2010, 05:46:46 UTC
Yeah, I had my share of immature snorts ^-^
I bet they had alot of gibberish for results.

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