And today, I have actual WORDS--from my Forgotten English Calendar, of course, because one of them is supercool, and the other is a grammar tidbit I couldn't resist. First, supercoolness:

conbobberation: conbobberation, helliferocious, mollagausauger, to puckerstopple and peedoodles were actually in use, and seem outlandish today only because of their unfamiliarity... the "tall talk" of the backwoods, moving ever westward with the frontier, left unmistakable traces in the writings of Mark Twain, John Hay, Bret Hart and a good many smaller fry.
~Thomas Pyle's Words and Ways of American English, 1952

conbobberation: a disturbance.
helliferocious: hellaciously ferocious
mollagausauger: a stout fellow
puckerstopple: to embarrass or shame
peedoodles: I couldn't find a definite meaning for this word, only that it's a brand of kiddie shoes, and one mention of scaring the peedoodles out of oneself.

Of course, my favorite is peedoodles, and I shall be using it as the second example above. Love!

The second word (or sixth, depending upon how you're counting) is:
a'n't: The phonetically natural and philologically logical shortening of am not, especially in a'n't I?... Amn't is ugly, and ain't is illiterate and, on other grounds inferior to a'n't. Note that a'n't I offers only two different stresses of emphasis, whereas am I not affords three.
~Eric Partridge's Book of Useage and Abusage, 1954

("Am'nt I" is still heard in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and is more correct that "aren't I," just "as I are late" is incorrect.)

This word has started me thinking about next week's post, if I can arrange my thoughts correctly, but for this week it has me wondering how ain't nudged out a'n't to make it into the dictionary? I imagine it's a common usage vs. proper usage sort of thing. Guesses?