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- Barry is a 50 year old guy from England, UK.
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"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be" ~ Kurt Vonnegut
I used to be known as Cloudhopper - I was pretending, of course. For reasons too convoluted even for me to understand I scheduled this account for deletion. And then I ran away to sea. As it turned out, this account hadn't deleted after all, but hidden in a shoe-box in the attic. There's another cloudhopper round here these days, but that's not me.
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Compendium of Lost Words
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Aug 8, 2006 2:55am
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A Compendium of Lost Words? How delightful.
One wonders, if lost, how they came by them. Perhaps they weren't lost at all, perhaps they were taken. Then, years later, when no-one is using them (and how could they use them, since they were taken?), up pops the Compendium to show what we have lost. Brilliant ruse. Shame they didn't open a small building society account with a couple of groats at the same time - imagine what that would be with interest.
Anyway, I took a look, and rapidly realised why these words are lost. They weren't taken, they weren't lost, they were thrown away because they were all bloody hard. And because they rolled off the tongue like a piece of blotting paper.
For example: crocitation (1623 -1656)
croaking; cawing
The crocitation of the gulls meant that I got no sleep last night. See what I mean? Blotting paper. Damn, they should have been lost at sea.
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