shutlow:

from their website:

each year hundreds of words are dropped from the english language.

old words, wise words, hard-working words. words that once led meaningful lives but now lie used, unloved, and unwanted.

today 90% of everything we write is communicated by only 7,000 words.

you can change all that. help save the words!

this beautifully designed site displays hundreds of obsolete words and their definitions, along with a witty sentence to go with them. adopt a word, promise to use it, and save it from disappearing into the pages of history!

do it do it do it. noah webster would want you to.

This is so fantastic! I wish I’d known about it earlier. This discovery more than makes up for the mess from last night’s party that awaits downstairs. I couldn’t believe how celeripedian my brother was when I requested his assistance to help clean up aforementioned party disaster scene.

Word saving has commenced! *superhero music*