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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums12 Old Words that Survived by Getting Fossilized in Idioms
English has changed a lot in the last several hundred years, and there are many words once used that we would no longer recognize today. For whatever reason, we started pronouncing them differently, or stopped using them entirely, and they became obsolete. There are some old words, however, that are nearly obsolete, but we still recognize because they were lucky enough to get stuck in set phrases that have lasted across the centuries. Here are 12 lucky words that survived by getting fossilized in idioms.
Read the full text here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51150/12-old-words-survived-getting-fossilized-idioms#ixzz2otWI3uTQ
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ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)I love words !!
Iggo
(47,558 posts)I just keep clicking and clicking and clicking until I don't know where the time went.
rug
(82,333 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Although I've never before seen "spelled", um, correctly.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Some notes here : http://grammarist.com/spelling/spelled-spelt/
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... but then my memory may not be all that great.