they don't make words like they used to (revival)

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

LUSTRUM appears to be a common enough word that it appears in the New Oxford 
American Dictionary, edition 2. I didn't check the usual online dictionaries.

In a message dated 9/18/06 12:11:59 PM, Berson at ATT.NET writes:


> At 9/18/2006 11:46 AM, Bill Mullins wrote:
> >I watched most of "Rooster Cogburn" over the weekend.  In it, John
> >Wayne's character is being forcibly retired for reasons of age and
> >decrepitude.  He maintains that he is good for another "lustrum",
> >however.
> 
> Did you happen to catch which university Rooster attended?  Or
> whether earlier he had been detached by his unit to attend and learn
> Latin?  Or was it on an ROTC scholarship?
> 
> Joel
> 
> > >
> > > Just got this notice on Linguist List, which led me to wonder...
> > >
> > > >
> > > >This lustrum workshop offers a forum of discussion between
> > > researchers
> > > >from different fields of writing research (theoretical linguistics,
> > > >psycholinguistics, computational linguistics or language education),
> > > >from different countries and working on different languages.
> > >
> > > ...what exactly a lustrum workshop was.  I was pretty sure
> > > I'd never knowingly encountered a lustrum before, and had no
> > > conception of what it might be.  Anyone else know?  I may
> > > have lived a sheltered (not to say benighted) life, but I was
> > > somewhat surprised to come across this announcement with its
> > > apparent presupposition that the reader would immediately
> > > recognize that a "lustrum workshop" obviously refers to...
> > >
> >
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> >The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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