lickystickypickyme: Help save the English language! There are over 60,000 words in the English language but only about 7,000 are used. The publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary have come up with a campaign to SAVE THE WORDS. Their adorable website encourages you to adopt an endangered word and pledge to use it as often as possible. Like philargyrist, “That diva is a total philargyrist!” Which means: someone who loves money. Please help to keep these beloved words from being erased forever.
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lickystickypickyme:

Help save the English language!

There are over 60,000 words in the English language but only about 7,000 are used.

The publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary have come up with a campaign to SAVE THE WORDS. Their adorable website encourages you to adopt an endangered word and pledge to use it as often as possible.

Like philargyrist, “That diva is a total philargyrist!” Which means: someone who loves money.

Please help to keep these beloved words from being erased forever.

(via lickypickystickyfree)

Source: savethewords.org

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    I adopted Obstrigillate which means to oppose; to resist. Something i am quite familiar with.
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    temerate: v. to break a bond or promise. something i am really fabulous at doing.
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    So much fun! I’ve adopted “molrowing,” which means “to make merry with prostitutes,” and “viduifical,” which means...
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    I adopted viliorate!
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    Oh my goodness! I love it! And I love that the first thing I clicked on was “crassitude” an elongation of one of my...
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    There are over 60,000 words in...English language today. Only about 7,000 are regularly...
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    I’ve got “caprizant”, which means uneven or irregular, as in the pulse. I promise I’ll take care of it.
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    I’m on board! My word is “pigritude”, which sadly has nothing to do with pigs. (It means “laziness”.)
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    Love it. I adopted “woundikins” - a mild profanity along the lines of “poppycock”
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    This is so freaking adorable!! I adopted “latibule.” :)
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