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  "textContent": "\n\nThe kids are bringing back archaisms: old-timey language that's been out of use for decades, if not a century or more. Lummox, hoodwink, skedaddle, whence and hence… \"Older slang is basically an earworm,\" an expert told the _New York Times_. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Thus spake whippersnapper: kids using old-timey terms again appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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