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Grandpa, why do you say...
Reader comment on item: Vanished American Words
Submitted by Jeff (United States), Dec 31, 2021 at 18:40
Why do you say you're dialing somebody when you him on the phone?
Why do you say roll up the window in the car?
And you said that broken can opener was only good as a paperweight now??
Grandma says you went to a hop. Or sock hop. Or something.
Wait, hold the presses.
Wait, what?
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Daniel Pipes replies:
Thank you for these excellent additions. I will include many of them in a second listing.
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| 1 | parietals [46 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | LEO MALKENSON | Jan 12, 2022 11:19 | 278152 | |
| 2 |  Just checked the meaning of parietals [58 words] | Prashant | Jan 13, 2022 01:18 | 278152 | |
| CorningWare or Corning Ware [30 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Robert | Jan 4, 2022 00:43 | 277973 | ||
| Card Catalo & Catalog Card ... Rotary Phone ...Typewriter [115 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Robert | Jan 3, 2022 17:06 | 277966 | ||
| Soon to be extinct ... [89 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Steven | Jan 3, 2022 11:43 | 277962 | ||
| 1 | Vanished words [4 words] | belter | Jan 2, 2022 08:47 | 277946 | |
| more words [43 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Rabbi Dov Fischer | Jan 2, 2022 00:47 | 277945 | ||
| Words to add? [68 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | A T Burke | Jan 1, 2022 16:31 | 277934 | ||
| 45 rpm and 78 rpm are back in use, defrost never vanished [139 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Malcolm | Jan 1, 2022 15:26 | 277931 | ||
| Collect Call! [42 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | dhimmi no more | Jan 1, 2022 15:02 | 277930 | ||
| More non-words [6 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Marcelo Messer | Jan 1, 2022 13:32 | 277927 | ||
| Just a few more some maybe obscure even to Boomers, and some recent [21 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | David Ryan | Jan 1, 2022 07:15 | 277924 | ||
| 1 | Duck and cover [5 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Joe | Dec 31, 2021 19:18 | 277920 | |
| 2 |  Grandpa, why do you say... [56 words]w/response from Daniel Pipes | Jeff | Dec 31, 2021 18:40 | 277919 | |
| Here's a few more... [19 words] | Jeff | Jan 3, 2022 17:26 | 277919 | ||
| more vanished words [10 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Michael A. Weiss | Dec 31, 2021 17:55 | 277917 | ||
| 1 | words [55 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Rabbi Dov Fischer | Dec 31, 2021 16:48 | 277913 | |
| 3 | typewriter [8 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Glenn | Dec 31, 2021 10:57 | 277910 | |
| Archeological Philology - Changing Thoughts and Absent Vocabulary [359 words] | M Tovey | Dec 31, 2021 10:50 | 277909 | ||
| 2 | More possibilities maybe [26 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Dave | Dec 30, 2021 21:41 | 277900 | |
| 1 | Jew vs. Arab, Jew vs. Muslim, Jew vs. Palestinian, Israeli vs. Palestinian, Hebrew vs. Heb., Jewish People vs. Ummah [458 words] | Robert | Jan 5, 2022 06:15 | 277900 |
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