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Wrong. Google Ngram Viewer Bit of dip from 1950 to 1975, but since then a steady increase.
Conclusion: you're ignorant.
I was ignorant of the term, 'earlier in the day', i.e. prior to 11:05 8th March 2019. I am no longer.
Conclusion: You're a for not KUATB
Also, I said
Originally posted by Bean
it was just Old Greg using words that are generally no longer used in the UK vernacular.
vernacular;
the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region
You've shown that the term is used in books.
HTH BIDI
Although I am loving an ex-pat trying to lecture someone who does still reside here, with what words are spoken by the ordinary people here, by using a link that analyses books Keep it up though, eventually you may come across a google link worth a damn
Originally posted by Old Greg
I admit I'm just a lazy, lying cretinous hypocrite and must be going deaf
No. You are incorrectly inferring. Being an educated adult is an indicator for a level of knowledge beyond what they learned in their formal education.
Fascinating.
What other phrases and topics are mandatory, in order to be labelled 'an educated adult'? (As you seem to be suggesting that one cannot be 'an educated adult' if one doesn't understand what 'fellow traveller' means...thus making it mandatory learning.)
Originally posted by Old Greg
I admit I'm just a lazy, lying cretinous hypocrite and must be going deaf
What other phrases and topics are mandatory, in order to be labelled 'an educated adult'? (As you seem to be suggesting that one cannot be 'an educated adult' if one doesn't understand what 'fellow traveller' means...thus making it mandatory learning.)
Do not be sad, Bean! We can help you learn hard words.
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