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revrachelmann.bsky.social
We’ve all heard of ‘throwing shade’, but in my ongoing search to find fresh ways to respond to folks being mean to me and others, I think it’s time to recover an old word for shade: umbracle.

‘Stop throwing umbracle’ has a certain ring. #ObsoleteWords
March 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
mandolinmama.bsky.social
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i'm having a hard time picking a favourite...

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#obsoletewords #ancientenglish #language
April 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM
trivipedia.bsky.social
Love that Otto English uses the word episcopicide for the murder of a bishop in his book. According to the OED it's been obsolete and the last recorded use was in 1700. Good on him to bring it back. Thomas Becket would approve!
#ThomasBecket #HistoryNerd #ObsoleteWords #HistorySky
May 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
jdstanley.com
Sorry, I haven't been around. Needed a break from socials, but hadn't planned to drop off like that. I've missed you!

Feeling recharged! 🎉Even had the energy to create a new new blog post:

Obsolete words we need to bring back
jdstanley.com/blog/obsolet...

#words #obsoletewords #archaicwords
Blog post teaser image, a screen capture of the top of the blog post with the title "Obsolete words we need to bring back" at the top, on the right an image of a tree losing leaves that are actually alphabet letters falling to the ground in piles. The opening two paragraphs of the blog post in the center: "I love words. D’uh. But modern words don’t always do it for me, y’know? Language evolves and it should, but modern language is so… cut-down? Fast? Efficient maybe. And in that efficiency, I feel we’ve lost a lot of that juicy, delicious, sumptuous description that used to be part of everyday language. Sure, it could be flowery and took time to get to the point, but maybe that’s just it. We move so quickly now, everything goes so fast, we don’t communicate in that way any longer. Personal opinion, of course, but I think we’re the less for it. In that evolutionary cutting down, rafts of amazing descriptive archaic words have gone by the wayside. Some of them must have been mistakes, because they perfectly capture certain concepts in a way we no longer have a description for. Why ever did we leave them behind?"
April 8, 2026 at 12:33 PM