Not used enough?

[Randy]

What is an English language word that doesn't get used enough in your opinion?

 

[Jazzy]

I would have said Thank You but that's two words. I will cut it down to one Thanks. Costs nothing to say and makes a person feel good knowing you appreciate what they said/did.

 

[DrLeftover]

This thread reminded me of this.

It's more than one word, and unless you are as crazed as he was when he wrote it, parts of it aren't in English. But, for what it's worth.

Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15597#sthash.7F6mgFBJ.dpuf

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I would have said Thank You but that's two words. I will cut it down to one Thanks. Costs nothing to say and makes a person feel good knowing you appreciate what they said/did.

I always say thank you, people like to hear thank you, even people you've known for a long time, that way they know you still appreciate the things they do and are not taking them for granted.

 

[DrLeftover]

A word that doesn't get used much now, but as the Federal Government gets further out of touch with the people, it will probably be used more often.


Perfidy: betrayal, deception, treachery

 

[Worm]

The word Please. There's alot people that don't have good manners at all and just demand things all the time. Saying please more would sure go along way.