[New-Poetry] words fallen by the wayside

[Anny Ballardini]

Long Play
Agonyelite
ten cent store
boscaresque

adopted, they clap your hands if you do it
incredible

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:14 PM, James Cervantes <cervantes.james at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Terrific.  This will keep me busy for days and weeks and months, though
> I'll likely remember less than half the words.  Or more.
>
> - Jim
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:32 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/11/09/131201940/save-the-words
>>
>> Here at NPR we deal all day, every day with words, written and spoken.
>>
>> We try to avoid flosculation (embellishment or ornament) or blateration
>> (blabber), but we’re kind of suckers for a good story about the English
>> language.
>>
>> When we came across savethewords.org, we knew we had found one.  The
>> website features arcane words that are well on their way out of use. Many
>> are no longer found in dictionaries...
>>
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