milo, are you not a member of the obsolete word club?

fourtnight (said fort night)
and sennight (a contraction of seven nights)
are old english words, --fortnight is still used in UK, but is obsolete in english -

last night on do you speak american, the idea that American English is now 'standard english', and not 'received'(ie english english) means we here in good ole USA get to call their words (a mere dialect of english!) obsolete, ain't life grand?

NY (city) set the standard for the lexis, and the midland (ohio to northern oklahoma, to illinois) set the standard for pronounciation.


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