Chances are you recognise a maximum of two of the words in each of these lists, but all of them are in active use in the UK. We know this because, in 2010 and 2011, the linguists in the British Library had recording booths set up in locations all over the UK to capture the words we use. The result was the Evolving English WordBank, a collection of words used in different parts of the country and elsewhere in the world. The people who donated these are not linguistic experts, just ordinary people who donated the words and phrases they use and or have heard others using. Armed with this information the British Library’s linguists were able to trace many of them.

Source: The Guardian March 13, 2017 06:22 UTC