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Researchers Want To Bring Back These 30 "Lost" English Words

The English language evolves, but do these words deserve extinction? Your vote can decide.

Researchers Want To Bring Back These 30 "Lost" English Words
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Do you peacockize because you're wlonk with a snout-fair dowsabel who doesn't need to parget? Or are you just a fumish or rouzy-bouzy losenger prone to betrumping? Not sure what that means? That's because the English language is constantly evolving.

1,200 new words were added to the Oxford Dictionary in 2016, including yolo, moobs, slacktivism, and fuhgeddaboudit. But for every word added to our daily vocabulary, others fall out of use.

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