Words that are going out of fashion / usage

Brio

I tend to use most of these out of fashion words as part of my day to day vocabulary.
Not using them reduces our language to an increasing dull and restricted toolkit.

Kittyfrisk

I'd be pleased to consign 'Ultimate' to this literary room 101...
Fine on it's own, but not applied to every fucking iteration of every phone, computer, car, band, cosmetic, etc. etc...

Kurtis

Brio said:

I tend to use most of these out of fashion words as part of my day to day vocabulary.
Not using them reduces our language to an increasing dull and restricted toolkit.

Funnily enough, I've seen quite a few of them being used on here.

I do enjoy using modern words and terms my son tells me. 

Sporky

Kittyfrisk said:

I'd be pleased to consign 'Ultimate' to this literary room 101...
Fine on it's own, but not applied to every fucking iteration of every phone, computer, car, band, cosmetic, etc. etc...

How do you feel about applying it to pens? 

Kittyfrisk

Sporky said:

Kittyfrisk said:

I'd be pleased to consign 'Ultimate' to this literary room 101...
Fine on it's own, but not applied to every fucking iteration of every phone, computer, car, band, cosmetic, etc. etc...

How do you feel about applying it to pens? 

Mmmmm... tough call, but unless they never make another improvement, development or change, then they're damned too. 
Cruel to be kind.

Sporky

I figured it'd be OK if they only made one more after the pen-ultimate. 

Timcito

Consonant clusters seem an endangered species, at least here in the US. People have started saying 'contrack' instead of the standard 'contract' with the 'c' and the 't' together. The 'c' + 't' + 's' on words like 'impacts' and 'acts' have become 'impax' and 'ax,' respectively.

Another pronunciation feature under threat here in the US is the medial 't' when it has a vowel on either side. Instead of the standard British 'better' or the standard US 'bedder,' many people are now using the glottal stop and dropping the medial consonant altogether: 'be 'er,' 'wa 'er' (for 'water'), etc.   

Kittyfrisk

Sporky said:

I figured it'd be OK if they only made one more after the pen-ultimate. 

Boom! :-D

RocknRollDave

Z*, which has now been replaced by Z**, for a lot of kids.

* “Zed”

* “Zee”

Kurtis

Zeds dead. 

Bellycaster

rogd said:

Can we get rid of AWESOME!

Now, that would be awesome if we could.

Philtre

Kurtis said:

Zeds dead. 

Stop right there, this is the apostrophe police. Fix the error or pay for the crime!

RichAC

In my experience, people seem to be fine with thousands of years of linguistic evolution… as long as it stops as soon as they hit middle age or so.  

Kurtis

Philtre said:

Kurtis said:

Zeds dead. 

Stop right there, this is the apostrophe police. Fix the error or pay for the crime!

Apologie's. 

Kurtis

RichAC said:

In my experience, people seem to be fine with thousands of years of linguistic evolution… as long as it stops as soon as they hit middle age or so.  

Much wisdoms 

Secret_Sam

Rapscallion 

RocknRollDave

Secret_Sam said:

Rapscallion 

I suppose it’s ‘Drillscallion’ these days…?

breakstuff

Groovy.

sev112

Golly - is that still acceptable as an exclamation ?

mudslide73

They used to say "rack off, you dag, Scott!" on Neighbours for a while.