Polycarp, thanks for that great description of edh (Đ đ ð), thorn (Þ þ), & wen (Ƿ ƿ).
Duckets, for money, is verrrry slowly climbing the charts.
I had to humbly explain myself once when using the word and there were only like 5800 Google hits four years ago.
Now we have a cool 61,500 count and the very trendy “mad duckets”.
I am feeling a bit let down that the Simpsons TV show has not ushered in a few comebacks. Arglebargle, fooferaw, 23 skidoo,… I mean c’mon… the show made “Yoink” an everyday word.
Are you sure that’s not “ducats”? As in, “O my daughter! O my ducats!”?
“Vexed” doesn’t sound archaic. I’ve certainly heard it in Monty Python sketches, though I’m pretty sure it was mostly by characters supposed to be older, as in “Your dad was dead vexed about [the pet whale you kept in the garage]”.
This may be a shorter cycle than some, but it seems not ten years ago the default meaning for “mad” was “angry” and it seems to have reclaimed it’s original/principle meaning as “batshit insane” recently. In fact, saying “I’m mad at you” would probably illicit an involuntary snerk and asking the speaker if they were 6. However, it’s still hard to find someone who freely uses “angry,” often opting for euphemisms such as “not happy” or more extreme synonyms such as “pissed.”
Tis!
The punk-ass gangstas of the day not only shun the traditional “O” in favor of a territorial groan of a disinterested “Yeh” but also freely revel in the abundant and completely unnecessary k’s our society so loosely allows because hard k sounds are so boss that the redundant consonant reinforcement is slickly excessive much like the champagne and helicopters that are found accompanying every rap video on MTV2.
Plus the rap rhyme with “fuck it” probably helped the newfound spelling along.
Well, yeah, I feel you on that, but the word “gender” was stolen from linguistics a long time ago.
OK, I’ll bite: what the hell are you talking about?
Hostile Dialect,
Hostile Dialect, Narcissist
I’ve noticed that “man” and “mankind” in the sense of “all humanity” seem to resurfacing. It does make some sense historically. “Man” and its cognates in other Germanic languages did originally function as a gender-neutral designation for humanity; the word for an adult human male was “wer” or “were”, or something similar, as attested by words like “werewolf” and “weregeld”.
As much as I would have tended to agree with you before reading your quote from the OED, the OED supports using “literal” in a sense of “I’m being poetic”.
Rogering.
“Egad sir, I gave that buxom wench a damn fine rogering”
“Well done Sir Percy, but I feel you’ve gone to far sirrah, that wench was my daughter”
slaps across face with glove
You may be right. A few years back, the fictional President Bartlett of The West Wing used the term “rogered”, 'tho I fain believe it went over the heads of most viewers.
I’ll side with those who think wireless is the best example yet in this thread. (Now, if we could just figure out why communication engineers insist on referring to switches as keys.)
Except that arglebargle and the shortened version argybargy never went away, still in regular usage in the UK.
Ducats, not duckets. Type of gold coin that was widely accepted throughout Europe between 1500 and 1750 or so.
Rappers now use it as a slang for money in general.