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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is depressing. In my parents’ generation, people would know these words with a high school education. Now…[/quote]
I disagree completely. This word was not used commonly enough to be commonly known, even then. You really think high schools in rural America, in inner cities, in small towns, etc were using/teaching this word as part of the basic education?  My parents graduated from high school (no college) and would not have been familiar with this word without looking it up.[/quote]

DP. Are you a historian of linguistics or education or something along those lines? Because if you're not, I don't see how you can so confidently assert what's in bold above. How do you know what was taught in rural America, inner cities and small towns in an earlier generation, or now, for that matter?

And do you see that you're subtly implying that "rural America, inner cities and small towns" are places where advanced vocabulary isn't...taught? Needed? Welcomed? Compared perhaps to urban America and suburbs? Think about that for a minute. You're stereotyping.

I was raised in a small town in the 70s in the South (gasp, where everyone is so ignorant and backward, to go with another stereotype you might be embracing) and I knew by high school what "peripatetic" meant. Teachers weren't messing around back then, no, not even in a small Southern town. Maybe check your tendency to make sweeping statements about what is and is not "commonly known." [/quote]

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