These unique old fashioned words tend to be back - Everlasting Lingo No more!!

Love Using Smileys? You’re Not Alone!

If you are the person who uses smileys more often than words, then you are just like me! Lol! I mean, who doesn't love using those beautiful, cute little gestures, so appealing to the eyes! I chat on WhatsApp more often than on Messenger or any other app, as the smileys on WhatsApp are beyond cuteness, and it gives me a sort of different tinge of thrill to converse through these munchkins! 

We have been noticing that many things in vogue today might become outdated tomorrow. However, a few popular ones find their way back into their previous prerequisite abode! Similarly, many words fall out of fashion and come right popping up again, which is why experts at the University of York have compiled a list of 30 words set for a renaissance. 

University of York’s Lost Words Project

“As professional linguists and historians of English, we were intrigued by the challenge of developing a list of lost words that are still relevant to modern life and that we could potentially campaign to bring back into modern-day language,” Dominic Watt, senior linguistics lecturer at the University of York, told the Evening Standard. 

They have revived the lost words, which they consider to be both interesting and thought-provoking, with the hope of engaging and reconnecting the people to the old. The researchers have categorized the words into ‘post-truth,’ ‘appearance,’ ‘personality and behavior,’ and ‘emotions.’ With this, it is soon to come! These words will be replacing the emotions of some of our beloved smileys anytime soon!

List of 30 Revived Lost Words

Betrump: To cheat, swindle, trick, or deceive. 

Coney-catch: To swindle, cheat, deceive, dupe, or decoy 

Dowsabel: Applied to a sweetheart, mostly the 'lady-love' 

Ear-rent: The figurative price given to the person for hearing the frivolous and everlasting talks. 

Hugger: Mugger, disguise, camouflage, Concealment, secrecy 

Percher: A person who aspires to a higher rank or status; an ambitious or self-assertive person 

Quacksalver: A person who claims to possess knowledge of or skill in medicine; a peddler of false cures. 

Rouzy-bouzy: Boisterously or savagely drunk 

Wasteheart: Used to pour out the emotions of grief, pity, regret, disappointment, or concern 

Wlonk: Proud, haughty, rich, splendid, fine, magnificent. Aren't some of them strangely bubbly cute! Well, start using them, as they are just about to hover just like the rest!