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Hein  ·  4344 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What words would you bring BACK for 2013?

Just read Shakespeare, Dickens, Conan Doyle or any other classic english author and you soon need a dictionary for all the amazing "new" words. I like the word "ejaculation" in its archaic meaning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejaculation_(grammar) William and Mary: A Tale of the Siege of Louisburg, 1745: "'Shiver me timbers, but I'll dew suthin' with it,' he ejaculated, holding up the missive and then feeling it over and over again."