Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times, was on last night’s episode of “The Simpsons,” helping to heal a rift between Homer and Lisa. Earlier in the show, Lisa participated in a crossword competition during which there was a tribute to words that had been removed from the dictionary in the previous year: “skedaddle,” “Nixonian,” “zounds,” “mimeograph” and “hootenanny.
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Dead Language - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
Humph. I still use ‘skedaddle’ regularly and I’m only 30. I’m up for trying to get ‘zounds’ back into circulation as well.
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