Mashed Loblolly

Words evolve. They come, they go.

There was a time when, if someone called you a “rascal,” you would have run them through with your sword to avenge your honor. Now though, we just laugh with incredulity that anyone would use such a word. “A rascal!? Oh, ho ho, ha ha. That’s rich. Ha ha ha!”

We accept the evolution of words as part of the language territory. But researchers in the U.K. have used a supercomputer to determine that certain everyday words are already on their way out. Words like guts,