I love old words, words found in Victorian texts and before; I love the whole vocabulary that once was, I find it a great shame that society doesn’t find it necessary to preserve them the best they can whilst incorporating new fashionable words.
I know many people who have an old way about them, me for example, but also some rare friends; they are made to feel like old fashioned blathering idiots for talking the way they do, yet I find it admirable.
Why can’t we preserve the old way conversationally speaking? Why are people made to feel almost ashamed for keeping rare words alive – and why is the OED removing many words from the dictionary?
It’s a shame, but I aim to preserve them the best I can through writing.
Yes, I understand that to read me can be very difficult for some, but I aim to help broaden people’s phraseological horizons.
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I wholeheartedly agree with you. If you have not stumbled across it, I can highly recommend http://phrontistery.info, a wonderful source for obscure and rare words. These gems occasionally feature in my tales of Victorian hauntings. Regards, Paul
No, I’ve never seen that site, thank you for sharing it with me though. The site looks mesmerizing, really is a little gem isn’t it?