Dying Words

[Las Naranjas]

gah, logorrheah

[Dart]

Malapert
Inbuilt
Unhouse
Ed
Zenana

(If you've ever played Literati with me, you'd understand. )

[rodekill]

I think "poobungies" is slowly dying, although I personally use it almost every day, along with a few people I know who've unwittingly assimilated it into their vocabulary.

[Ize]

What about "Pneumonoltramicroscopicsilivolcanoconiosis" or somin' like hat (some wierd desease).  

[Nacho]

I have a strange case in Spain... Some time ago, like 5 years, things "exploded" (Explotaban) now the people doesn't use that verb, they use "Explosionated" instead (Explosionaban). It is very weird, and I think there must be similar cases in every country. How happens this? The media decides a word is old fashioned and start to use another one? And why we copy all we see in TV? 

[AGA]

What about "Pneumonoltramicroscopicsilivolcanoconiosis" or somin' like hat (some wierd desease).  

It's a lung disease often suffered by coal miners.  The correct spelling is 'PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS' (thanks, Google)

[DGunpluggered]

Snapplelicious!

[Nine Toes]

Antidisestablishmentarianism.
Gerrymander.
Misanthrope.
Sagacity.
Boondoggle.
Feminazi.
DOS.

[Andail]

Hobby

Seriously, how many of you still speak of your hobbies?

[Nine Toes]

Actually, I think I just did.  8)

[Las Naranjas]

I had to define Gerrymander in an exam this morning

No, it wasn't a scrabble exam.

[AGA]

You couldn't spell 'gerrymander' in Scrabble, given the 7 letter limit.

[Ali]

they use "Explosionated" instead (Explosionaban). It is very weird, and I think there must be similar cases in every country. How happens this?

The US has done one or two things like that to English if I'm not mistaken. "Buglarized" instead of the perfectly functional "burgled" and "normalcy" for "normality".

You couldn't spell 'gerrymander' in Scrabble, given the 7 letter limit.

Witness:

Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, h
GERRYmanDER
Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, t

(capitalisation indicates newly added letters)

[Punch]

I would say that it is not very perspicacious of you to proclaim boolean a deprecated word. We should act posthaste to quell, quash and thwart such dastardly fallacious confabulation lest some credulous buffoon, through sheer happenstance, blunders upon and propagates this erroneous statement.

And Ali: You've still added 8 letters

[Sam.]

one of the most annoying word changes to me is the american "ironic" to "ironical". it really bugs me for some reason. And no, fandabbydosey is not a real word. i hear it less often now than i did two years ago.

[Haddas]

One would befit from simmering down a trifle. You're both comporting very disadvantageously cogitating your prestigiousness.

I propound ataraxis and let us all misremember this contingency.

Oh, and I'd like to broach this gobbledegook:

nincompoop

poobungies

tergiversate

kvetch

and

grizzle



EDIT: Oh, the altercate between Flippy and AGA appears to be concluded an epoch ago

[PaulSC]

Favourate dying word:

Brouhaha (preferably spoken in drawn-out, over-dramatic fashion, with rolled 'r's etc).


Favourate dead words:

Blaggard (as in: "have at ye, blaggard!").

Swive (i.e. 'to screw').

[AGA]

You couldn't spell 'gerrymander' in Scrabble, given the 7 letter limit.

Witness:

             h
GERRYmanDER
             t

(capitalisation indicates newly added letters)

You think I didn't bother checking my statement?
As Punch already said, that would involve adding eight letters, which can't be done...

[Fuzzpilz]

Code: ags

      cribbage
      r_ r_
GERRYmanDeR
      b  a
         d

(and numerous variants)

Whoops!

I haven't played Scrabble for a while, but isn't that illegal anyway? IIRC the letters laid down in one turn have to be contiguous.

[Adamski]

I think it's legal, certainly in the games I've played. Yahoo Scrabble Clone has never seemed to be too upset by it either...