Words you don’t hear much these days

[wtg]

Guess we know who the drinkers are around here....

[Nina]

Chiapet? Is that even a word?
I've been known to use salad days, but I never knew it was from Shakespeare.
I'd never heard the term "bespoke" in the US, but it seems to be slowly working it's way into everyday speech here.

Another word I recently used in a text was "addlepated " I just think those kinds of terms are fun!

[CHAS]

Virgin

[Steve Miller]

Velocipede.

[ShiroKuro]

@Nina said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

addlepated

Ooh, great word！

Also @Nina :

[Bernard]

Incandescent (unfortunately)

[AdagioM]

Amongst. Unless you’re George R. R. Martin. Although he doesn’t seem to be finishing up his Song of Ice and Fire series, so maybe he’s not using it any more, either.

[wtg]

@AdagioM said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

Amongst. Unless you’re George R. R. Martin.

Or wtg.

[AdagioM]

@wtg I usually just say among. Oh! The other thing GRRM says is “whilst.”

[wtg]

I actually say both among and amongst. And while and whilst.

I also pronounce either and neither as eye-ther and nye-there instead of ee-ther and nee-ther. Mom had an English boss when she worked in the DP camp in Germany after WWII. I think she picked up some of her pronunciation from being around him. And I from her.

[AndyD]

Grotty
(Feeling miserable and ill
Or describing a place as dirty/nasty)

[AndyD]

I say amongst, though among is standard over here. Never whilst.

[Daniel]

I like the word undulate but don't hear it often and rarely myself do I find it able to withstand my editing.

[Daniel]

I never say amongst nor whilst. I don't know why. All I know is I don't use them and it would be too late to start now.

[Daniel]

I hear the word bemused used often and as many times as I hear it I can't remember its meaning (remember is too strong a word).

I always think of the word amused when I hear it and then draw a blank.

[ShiroKuro]

I usually say “amongst our weaponry”

IYKYK…

[Piano*Dad]

niggardly

[AdagioM]

Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.

[wtg]

@AdagioM said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.

[RealPlayer]

I see (and hear) kerfuffle often in the media.