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Just a few more some maybe obscure even to Boomers, and some recent
Reader comment on item: Vanished American Words
Submitted by David Ryan (United States), Jan 1, 2022 at 07:15
C-phone (candlestick phone)
receiver
Hadacol
Mercurochrome
telegram
Model A
recent:
floppy disk
Zip drive
iPod (going into the memory hole soon)
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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 | ||
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| 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 | ||
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| 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 | |
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| 2 | More possibilities maybe [26 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Dave | Dec 30, 2021 21:41 | 277900 | |
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