These Lovely “Fossil Words” Are Hiding in Plain Sight

Wend, kith, vim … shebang!

I don’t want to sound too alarmist, but they walk among us. We thought they were dead, but they clung to life through a loophole, travelers from a distant past living tourist lives in the host homes they have somehow carved out of our alien present. These are the “fossil words,” obsolete and active all at once; common as dirt…