10 Words We Stopped Using for Everyday Items
“Timmy, please fetch my pocketbook from the davenport, the one next to the Victrola. And I put your dirty galoshes by the Frigidaire.” If you understood all that, congratulations: You’re fluent in vocabulary from a bygone age. Individual words are undoubtedly durable things, often lasting many centuries, but they are
not inherently immortal. They can fade away for a multitude of reasons, perhaps not vanishing entirely but rather reaching a point at which they survive only in pockets of the English-speaking world, or are consigned to exist solely in old novels, antique shops, and possibly the minds of our grandparents....
