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This is a neat little item I stumbled across recently. It seems that Geoffrey Chaucer, he of The Canterbury Tales, is responsible for a good number of words we still use today although he lived in the 1300s and wrote in Middle English. A clever fellow, that one! Geoffrey Chaucer Coined 'Twitter'
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I had no idea he invented Twitter...the man truly was ahead of his time... Interesting collection of words he got there...a "proem?" Is that like a prose poem or something?
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I had to look that one up.  It means preface or prologue. Proem isn't used much anymore, at least in my circles, so it seems an odd choice for inclusion in the word cloud.
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magnificent1rascal wrote: Proem isn't used much anymore, at least in my circles, so it seems an odd choice for inclusion in the word cloud. Can't recall the last time I used poppet, caterwaul, or fattish either...interesting that the word "future" is included... Apparently there was no future before Chaucer... 
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Even if old Geoffrey couldn't spell 'Jeffrey' worth a lick, that he came up with both 'crude' and 'dotard' leads one to the strong suspicion that, though knocking around way back when, he was shanneling me here in the 21st century  .
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