I stumbled across an interesting blog corpse today, The Vocabulary Reclamation Project. It looks like the author was engaged in some serious anti-Moose polemic, even daring to quote that thundering line from C.S. Lewis, "What men have forgotten how to say, they will soon forget to think."

I wonder what happened to the VRP. I wonder if the Moose caught wind of it.

Were the blog active, I would recommend Lost Beauties of the English Language, by Charles Mackay. Admittedly, it is a book of obsolete words, but they are words that should not have been lost and, I think, could many of them be reintroduced.

Today's Lost Beauty:

"Ninny-watch: The expectation of a fool; a vain, over-sanguine hope."