Gallimaufry: A Hodge-podge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary

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Gallimaufry: A Hodge-podge of Our Vanishing VocabularyWhat is a gallimaufry anyway? And when did you last hear someone refer to the wireless? What was the original paraphernalia? Would you wear a billycock? Language is always changing, and here Michael Quinion, author of the bestselling POSH and other language myths , has gathered together some fascinating examples of words and meanings which have vanished from our language. Sometimes a word is lost when the thing it describes becomes obsolete, sometimes

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