[lit-ideas] Re: Charabanc! Aerodrome!
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:41:00 +0100 (BST)
It is strange. "Aerodrome" is stranger, though, as aerodrome still exist,
surely?
>I mean how often does one use "fold" for sheep's pen,
Sheep pen? I suppose that is what they're called, yes. Fold is something
Assyrians come down as a wolf on the, now.
This site, listed elsewhere on the Guardian, is apparently interesting; it
doesn't work with my browser, so I can't tell.
http://www.savethewords.org/
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Mon, 22/8/11, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Charabanc! Aerodrome!
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, 22 August, 2011, 19:05
On Aug 22, 2011, at 8:24 AM, Judith Evans wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/21/endangered-words-collins-dictionary
and here, for David, is my Google's second hit for "aerodrome"
http://www.theaerodrome.com/index.php
Charabang hobsolete? Great wittol'd woolfell. Makes you wonder what Witold
Rybczynski's mum was up to.
It's an odd argument, but very much an argument of our times. Why bother with
out-of-date words; they're just clutter. I mean how often does one use "fold"
for sheep's pen, or "foremast" or an even more obscure part of a ship's
anatomy, or some other word chosen habnab (which my 1830 Walkers dictionary
records as "at random")?
The editors should be subject to electrocide.
David Ritchie,The Profoundness of Oregon
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