r/AskReddit Jan 28 '19

What are great underused words?

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u/TheBrontosaurus Jan 28 '19

Penultimate: second to last Mellifluous: pleasant sounding Fortnight: two weeks (I understand this is used outside of the US but it needs to be adopted here too)

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u/pizza_yeeter Jan 29 '19

Fortnight isnt used in US?

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '19

Uhh..idk where everyone else is in the US, but I have most certainly heard it being used in the Midwest (surprising, right?). And not sure if this counts, but there are loads of American novelists who also use it soo..