Wandering the graveyard of dead Japanese words - fascinating article about ‘shigo’, Japanese words that have ‘died’.

Some words get worn out, others die young.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260312/p2a/00m/0op/044000c

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Edging Toward Japan: Wandering the graveyard of dead Japanese words - The Mainichi

By Damian Flanagan My eldest daughter has a fondness for learning languages -- French and German -- but her real passion is for what we would call

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