When I was a lad I remember people using thrice but it struck me the other day that it’s a word you rarely hear now. Checked in an online dictionary which described thrice as Archaic (which surprised me as I clearly remember my parents using it but that was probably the best part of sixty years ago).
Another one that seems to be falling out of use is lorry. My grandson will usually say truck. My daughter who works in publishing confirms that books (even those destined for the British market) will use truck rather than lorry.
I suspect there’s a lot of words like this - I don’t mean words like groat or doublet which describe something that doesn’t really exist anymore - more things where a different word is becoming the accepted norm.
I play guitar because I enjoy it rather than because I’m any good at it
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I also remember 'Get knotted!' as an insult. How mild it now sounds!
eg: “Skill, my sister just slipped on some white dogshit!”
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