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[Xie Lin]

"A “slumgullion” is a stew of leftovers, and while the dish has been described as “watery,” the word itself is delectably unusual and juicily descriptive. Alas, you won’t find many people cooking up anything with that name these days, so we’re denied the pleasure of rolling the lovely sounds of slumgullion — let alone its more questionable flavors — on the tongue."



http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/the-lost-slumgullions-of-english/

I enjoyed this interesting, if light-weight, article about the use of out-of-date words.

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[AngelineFerrer]

Interesting

[mmcmorrow]

You might also enjoy Mark Forsyth's inky fool blog page. He's also written a couple of best-sellers about interesting obsolete words - I'm currently reading his 'Horologicon', which is quite amusing way to relieve one's uhtceare in those restive hours before the day-peep .....

Martin McMorrow, New Zealand

[Sashadroogie]

Yes, he's a great fellow for the weird words. I read this one last year - wonderful stuff:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12870068-the-etymologicon