{"id":340,"date":"2010-04-20T05:20:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2016-09-30T10:11:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T17:11:42","slug":"how-to-adopt-an-antediluvian-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/how-to-adopt-an-antediluvian-word","title":{"rendered":"How to Adopt an Antediluvian Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/savethewords-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"SavetheWords.org\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/savethewords-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/savethewords-768x509.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/savethewords.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Your students can prevent words like succisive, welmish or alogotrophy from fading into obscurity by adopting them through the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110325150610\/http:\/\/www.savethewords.org\/\">Save the Words web site<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 When students visit Save the Words, they are confronted with a wall of lonely, unused words crying out for new homes. Literally. They cry out. Really. <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110325150610\/http:\/\/www.savethewords.org\/\">Try it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the Save the Words website expresses it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each year hundreds of words are dropped from the English language.<\/p>\n<p>Old words, wise words, hard-working words. Words that once led meaningful lives but now lie unused, unloved and unwanted.<\/p>\n<p>Today 90% of everything we write is communicated by only 7,000 words.<\/p>\n<p>You can change all that. Help save the words!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you adopt a word, you make a solemn vow: &#8220;I hereby promise to use this word, in conversation and correspondence, as frequently as possible to very best of my ability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This would be a clever and fun way to get students playing with words. After they adopt a word students could use it in a poem, in their daily work, or in class discussions.<\/p>\n<p>How would you use this site in your classroom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your students can prevent words like succisive, welmish or alogotrophy from fading into obscurity by adopting them through the Save the Words web site.\u00c2\u00a0 When students visit Save the Words, they are confronted with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79],"tags":[80,81],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-savethewords-org","tag-vocabulary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-5u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}