Words going out of use

[Mugshot]

By following this gentlemans example we can return our language to its colourful best,

 

[Ganymede]

I haven't heard anyone say forsooth in The City in the last couple of years.

You're mixing with the wrong people mate! I can truly confess that I use the word "forsooth" quite often. (I've played quite a bit of Shakespeare though...)

 

[ASC1951]

[QUOTE 2902923, member: 259"]The standard US spelling is roofs.[/quote]You may be correct on that.

Rooves is just plain wrong, and it never was spelt so except by mistake.

But not about that The OED says "The most usual plural of roof is roofs, although rooves is sometimes used."

 

[User482]

But not about that The OED says "The most usual plural of roof is roofs, although rooves is sometimes used."

Only by people who also use "thrice".

 

[Fnaar]

I haven't heard "Gadzooks!" in quite a while.

 

[postman]

Fish and chips two times please.i don't think so.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

[QUOTE 2902923, member: 259"]The standard US spelling is roofs. Rooves is just plain wrong, and it never was spelt so except by mistake.[/quote]
I learnt it as roof/rooves along the same lines as hoof/hooves.

 

[youngoldbloke]

'Problem' - replaced by 'issue'. 'About' replaced by 'around' As in: 'issue around' instead of 'problem about'.

 

[Fnaar]

I learnt it as roof/rooves along the same lines as hoof/hooves.

In the 1960s, the word 'pooves' (meaning the plural of 'poof', as a derogatory term for homosexual men) was not unusual.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It looks like 'hit' went out of use just there, taking the link with it.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Oh, and while we're on this topic: the increased use of "they" and "their" to refer to individuals. Yes, I know, English lacks a third-person gender-neutral singular pronoun, but even so...

 

[Shut Up Legs]

It looks like 'hit' went out of use just there, taking the link with it.

I know, the link got censored! I fixed it though, by 'censoring' the file name.

 

[swee'pea99]

I received a compliment recently for referring to someone as 'an amiable looking cove'. I like using archaic expressions, particularly insults. I quite often call chaps binders, cads, and even rotters (tho' seldom 'absolute stinkers' - one has to draw the line somewhere).

Expressions for chaps which were common in my childhood - blokes, fellers and the like - all seem to be sliding into the abyss, leaving 'guys' as the one-size-fits-all, in much the same way our two-fingered salute has pretty much been replaced by the 'spin-on-this' finger. Damn country's going to the dogs, harrumph. And there's another you don't see a lot of nowadays. (Do people still say 'nowadays'?)

 

[Domeo]

Responsibility as a word and concept seems to have died.