A to Z of Words You Will Never Hear Again

Name: A to Z of Words You Will Never Hear Again
Start: 2026-04-08T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-08T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Breadmarket Street, WS13 6LG Lichfield, United Kingdom

Schedule

Wed Apr 08 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Breadmarket Street, WS13 6LG Lichfield, United Kingdom | Lichfield, EN

Join us for an evening of wonderful words with guest speaker Anthony Poulton-Smith.
With over a million words in the full version of the Oxford English Dictionary and more being added all the time, you would think there are many we never use or ever even hear. You would be right but I wonder if you know how right? Of those million words the average person uses perhaps 20,000 when writing and only about 5,000 in everyday speech. So what happened to the others? Well here are a selection and these are not even among the more obscure!
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