The Obscure Word of the Week
| n | 1753 -1753 |
| writer or composer of a grammar; a grammarian |
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Obscure Words Want Immortality, Too
What happens to words when they are dropped from a languages vocabulary? Do they linger on as ghost-words with hope of resurrection centuries later by some grammarian nerd? The answer is no...and yes. I thought the most appropriate "first post" for a blog like this, one that deals with the "obscure," is acknowledging the existence of Lost/Obscure words.
So, Where Do They Go?
Linguists, those aforementioned grammarian nerds, research and compile databases (literally) full of largely unused, unknown, and, in some cases, extinct words. I pulled the Obscure Word of the Week from The Phrontistery, a site dedicated to preserving forgotten words as well as providing lesser known words, that, while not yet extinct, are uncommon in daily language. For those out there that enjoy creative writing in the science fiction/fantasy spheres, they also have a compendium of nautical terms, scientific tools, and phobias, so you can call your friends cathisophobics while penning your next epic space opera.
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