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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread foresightful #152366 12/19/05 09:07 PM Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1 S shoutgal OP stranger OP shoutgal stranger S Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1 Foresightful is a word but MS Word spell check does not think so. Any guess as to when did this word fell out of common use? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: foresightful #152367 12/19/05 09:17 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont welcome shoutgal! well, it wasn't in the mac OSX dictionary, either, but it shows up readily at OneLook, etc., so I would guess they just couldn't put them all in! formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: foresightful #152368 12/19/05 09:33 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Hiya shoutgal, and welcome. The OED has foresight in its sights from 1530: Haue ther with Consyderacyon Be a forsyght and cleer inspeccyon. It also charts foresightful from not much later, in Sidney’s Arcadia from 1580: The foresightfull care he had of his silly successour. Your question about it not getting much use is harder to answer: it is not marked as dead language, and they quote a New York source for a usage in 1889, so we can assume this authority still recognises it as valid currency. Like eta said, it’s probably just the constraints of space required so Micro$loth can fit the code in for another animated paperclip or something *really useful of that kind… fwiw, the similar usage 'insightful' would still be a commonplace. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: foresightful #152369 12/19/05 11:43 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Quote: Any guess as to when did this word fell out of common use? define common! it seems to be pretty common, at least as economics, social science, psychology, and futurology cant. I particularly like this usage: It might be small enough that both foresightful and insightful probabilities would have led to the same conclusion. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: foresightful #152370 12/20/05 10:02 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 If it's fallen out of common use it's because for many the long term is nothing but a series of short terms. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,328 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 1,181 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 15 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,539 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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