Words you don’t hear much these days
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Velocipede.
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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!
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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.
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@AdagioM said in Words you don’t hear much these days:
Amongst. Unless you’re George R. R. Martin.
Or wtg.
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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.
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Does anyone use “kerfuffle?” Mr. AM once wrote that on my sheet music at a particularly perilous passage.
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I see (and hear) kerfuffle often in the media.