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I strongly encourage everyone to download free THE ENGLISH DIALECT DICTIONARY (in 6 volumes). (1898) It's free (for now), it's available (for now), crack it open. Start learning what words used to mean, where they came from, and words you never heard of and ideas and concepts you never heard of. archive.org/details/eng… It's like going b…
I strongly encourage everyone to download free THE ENGLISH DIALECT DICTIONARY (in 6 volumes). (1898) It's free (for now), it's available (for now), crack it open. Start learning what words used to mean, where they came from, and words you never heard of and ideas and concepts you never heard of. https://archive.org/details/englishdialectdi01wrig/page/6/mode/2up It's like going back in time. Words change, languages altered and ideas are deleted. Orwell and Tolkien both wrote about the subversion of language. Without learning the origins of the language you speak and think in, you will be forever caught in endless newspeak, babble.
That is really cool, thanks!
Thanks for pointing us to this. There at the very first entry of "A list of words kept back . . ." is the word ABLACH; an insignificant person. I think we should bring this one back and use it profusely.