# What word or words would you like to hear in more common usage?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 19, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-or-words-would-you-like-to-hear-in-more-common-usage/760359 "2016-07-19T21:51:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-or-words-would-you-like-to-hear-in-more-common-usage/760359/41 "2017-02-23T23:06:50Z")

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Sesquipedalian  
Whither and thither  
yonder used as an adverb not a noun

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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-or-words-would-you-like-to-hear-in-more-common-usage/760359/42 "2017-02-24T00:32:15Z")

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Abstemious  
Snivelling  
Churchillian  
Batrachivorous  
Concupisence  
Antediluvian  
Panjandrum  
Sesquicentennial  
Recrudescence  
Brobdingnagian  
Embiggenment  
Malthusian

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