A Plethora of Forgotten Words

When I was doing my time serving this great country of ours, I had a army buddy who would say the most ridiculous things. Not things that were grammatically incorrect or even mildly amusing, just words that shouldn't be used during a military drill. One day, during one training in the middle of a field, he said "Look, there's a plethora of trucks." What? You couldn't just say a shit-load of trucks like everyone else in this unit would have said? I was convinced he had one of those word a day calendars because he would come up with the strangest words.

In his honor, I wanted to point people to this website that is sponsored by the people who put out the Oxford Dictionary. Save The Words offers a plethora of words for you to adopt that have fallen out of favor. Need just the right word to describe that homeless fellow hanging out in the library lobby? Maybe he's mingent, which means he's discharging urine. Exactly how little are these words used? Well, the spellchecker said I spelled "mingent" wrong, so there is some subtle satisfaction in knowing that I am slightly more intelligent than the spell-check function.

While I am one is who is much more interested in seeing language evolve (witness all the times people have criticized my choice of words and I have to tell them that I am creating new ones), for those who would like to save the past, and sound slightly pretentious doing so in my opinion, have a go.