Willow’s Disappearance: Is Nature Outdated?

Reader Contribution by Cindy Murphy
Published on September 10, 2010
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Can anyone tell me what “badot” means? Or the definition of “hoddypeak”? You’d be hard-pressed to find them in any dictionary except those containing curious, outdated or obsolete words.

How about “willow”? There’s at least one well-used dictionary that considered the word outdated, and eliminated it from its pages.

Keith took Shannon fishing this weekend; she’s become quite the fisherman this summer. When I got home from work Saturday, she excitedly told me all about their morning. “We caught 30 fish, Mom, and I caught way more than Dad.” (He was too busy baiting her hooks to actually do much of his own fishing.) “You should have seen the bass I caught! It was thiiis big,”she said, stretching her arms apart as far as they would go. Yes, she certainly has become quite the fisherman, learning already how to exaggerate the catch. “It was the best day ever!”

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