words out, words in

[Mark Odegard]

>A student asked me in class today if I knew of any words that had
>dropped out of English, then had been revived.  I could not come up
>with any.  Can anyone else?

The flocci... word in OED comes to mind, along the the antidis... word.
Since these words appear in dictionaries, they tend to get revived, simply
because there are many of us on this list who regard dictionaries as
recreational reading.
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