Saving Words :: Should We or Shouldn’t We?
An entertaing look – perhaps last look? – at words on the chopping block:
How you can help to save some cherished words from oblivion
Jack Malvern
From The Times
September 22, 2008
“It may appear agrestic to ask, but The Times is calling on its readers to come to the rescue of words that risk fading into caliginosity.
“Dictionary compilers at Collins have decided that the word list for the forthcoming edition of its largest volume is embrangled with words so obscure that they are linguistic recrement. Such words, they say, must be exuviated abstergently to make room for modern additions that will act as a roborant for the book…” [read the rest here – including a short list of the words being considered]
