Word: oscan
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...magnificent it may have been. Slang needs to be new. Its life is brief, intense and slightly disreputable, like adolescence. Soon it either settles down and goes into the family business of the language (like taxi and cello and hi) or, more likely, slips off into oblivion, dead as Oscan and Manx. The evening news should probably broadcast brief obituaries of slang words that have passed on. The practice would prevent people from embarrassing themselves by saying things like swell or super. "Groovy, descendant of cool and hip, vanished from the language today...
Classical Philology 31.--The Elements of Oscan and Umbrian. Tu., Th., and (at the pleasure of the instructor) Sat., at 9. Professor Minton Warren...
...half course in the elements of Oscan and Umbrian by Professor Allen...
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