[Lexicog] Re: archaic entries

Rudolph Troike rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU
Tue Feb 14 05:47:11 UTC 2006


Using 1755 as a cut-off date for "obsolete" seems pretty extreme. There are
huge numbers of words that have died out (or rather whose users have died off)
since then, which could hardly even be called "old fashioned" anymore. They
would seem to fall into a sort of terminological limbo.

      Rudy Troike




 
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