February 26, 2009

  • Nothing really new today, sadly. Felt like I sort of wasted my day, and yet no in other ways. Anyway, new word of the day (Thursday).

    Ere [air]
    –preposition, conjunction

    before; previous to; sooner than

    Origin:
    before 900

    Forgive the rather common one this time, but I can't seem to find any good ones today (besides, how often do we use "ere" in speech - and it's so good of a word, too). How is it that when I had no interest of recording intriguing archaic words, I found a site with a decent amount of them. Now, I can't seem to find any of worthiness.

    What's really interesting is the amount of "apparently" archaic words that I use everyday. Supposedly "albeit" (I've used that in IM conversations twice within the past two weeks) and "lest" (one of my all time favorite words - who doesn't use it???) are archaic. I've heard of "asunder" before and, I believe, "rend".

    As to words that you add -st, I've always been fond of "amongst". To be honest, there's a feeling like consonants are missing in just saying "among". Have to use the former.

    While I don't use it, betwixt is kinda cool. I prefer between, though.

    A lot of other words have archaic grammatical histories, but I won't post them all here. They're very common words, so it doesn't go much beyond just being intriguing for a short time-being (visit http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3171155525, under Basic Info.).