A vetoratorian hint: save a word

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A friend of mine linked to this on facebook today: www.savethewords.org/

Many words are no longer used and are dying out - this is a campaign to adopt a word and use it when you can. I thought it might appeal to pedants.

Vetoratorian = 'subtle', adj,

What a great site. DH is a tad gleimous at the moment, apparently.

Ha! Gleimous is my friend's word. I will now always associate her with phlegm..

MN collectively ought to adopt pregnatress

And 'mingent' has wide applicability, from babies to Tena lady moments.

Ah - I spotted Pregnatress too

It did occur to me that hidden amongst these words may well be Mamight's missing name for condiments-jam-preserves-breakfasty-things.

Oh! I remember that - has that word not been found yet?

Ooh I like this one, how many politicians are snollygosters?

Is there somewhere we can look up the words others have found - I can't spot 'snollygosters' (and I don't have complete OED to hand)

Oh, I'm adopting 'mingent' too, fabulous word. Thank you OP for introducing me to a wonderful new site.

If you click on 'adopt-a-word' at the top, there is a search box at the bottom ('find').

A snollygoster is 'a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician'.

I have an unhealthy temptation to try nerterology

There's something I haven't seen in a while.