What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?
What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?
Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.
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Propreantepenultimate. Fifth to last.
- Ultimate
- Penultimate
- Antepenultimate
- Preantepenultimate
- Propreantepenultimate
13 0 ReplyI use penultimate all the time and most people have no idea what I mean! We need to bring back the Latin based words
5 0 ReplyThat means the item right before the last item, right?
2 0 ReplyYep. That's actually how we say last and whatnot in Spanish: último is last and penúltimo is 2nd to last
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I knew the first three, but not four and five. TIL
3 0 ReplyHmm the grammar checks out 👍
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