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A similar desire to evoke a former age means that archaic place names are frequently used in circumstances where doing so conveys a political or emotional subtext, or when the official new name is not recognised by all (for example: 'Madras' rather than 'Chennai'). So, a restaurant seeking to conjure
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Because they are things of continual discovery and re-invention, science and technology have historically generated forms of speech and writing which have dated and fallen into disuse relatively quickly. However, the emotional associations of certain words have kept them alive, for example the
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old-fashioned language. In contrast, an obsolete word or sense is one that is no longer used at all. A reader encounters them when reading texts that are centuries old. For example, the works of
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An outdated form of language is called archaic. In contrast, a language or dialect that contains many archaic traits (archaisms) relative to closely related languages or dialects spoken
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writing and speech. Archaisms are kept alive by these ritual and literary uses and by the study of older literature. Should they remain recognised, they can potentially be revived.
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is a word, a sense of a word, or a style of speech or writing that belongs to a historical epoch beyond living memory, but that has survived in a few practical settings or affairs.
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is widely used by dictionaries. An archaic word or sense is one that still has some current use but whose use has dwindled to a few specialized contexts, outside which it
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remain in use within certain fixed expressions despite having faded away in all other contexts (for example,
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archaic 'wireless' rather than 'radio' for a generation of British citizens who lived through the
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Archaisms can either be used deliberately (to achieve a specific effect) or as part of a specific
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Archaisms often linger in proverbs, "falling easier on the tongue", and employing two of the
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in preference to using the newer place name. A notable contemporary example is the airline
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Archaisms are frequently misunderstood, leading to changes in usage. One example is the
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archaism is the survival of archaic language in a traditional literary text such as a
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are old enough that some obsolete words or senses are encountered therein, for which
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archaisms are single archaic words or expressions used regularly in an affair (e.g.
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contexts). Many nursery rhymes contain archaisms. Some archaisms called
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rhetorical effects, permutation (immutatio) and addition (adiectio).
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characteristic of an earlier age—for example, in his 1960 novel
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David John Allerton; Nadja Nesselhauf; Paul Skandera (2004).
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That is: today this happens to me, but tomorrow to you.
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to evoke the flavour of the period. Some may count as
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Anarchism
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religion
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The Sot-Weed Factor
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set phrase
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history
poetry
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