Have you ever thought about obsolete words? Gallus is an old word for suspenders. I told an elderly man the other day that I really liked his leather gallus. He asked me how I knrw that word. Pussyvan: A flurry, temper — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk Spermologer: A picker-up of trivia, of current news, a gossip monger, what we would today call a columnist — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk Wonder-Wench: Sweetheart. The book- The Word Museum would be a fun book to have.
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