Talk:eftsoons

Obsolete

I have marked eftsoons as “obsolete”, since I have never heard the word outside of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a 200-year old poem (c. 1800) whose language was criticized at the time as archaic (see e.g., Literary terms: a dictionary, by Karl E. Beckson, Arthur F. Ganz, “archaism”, p. 19, which gives “eftsoons” as archaic in 1800). It is also found in the work of Edmund Spenser and the Book of Common Prayer (both 16th century), and a quick search finds very occasional use in poetry and law into the 19th century. The word, to my knowledge, finds no use in everyday or even formal speech or writing and is unrecognizable to all but erudite poets and scholars of English.

—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 21:08, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

See the Citations tab ... I found it used twice in contemporary fiction. --AnWulf ... Ferþu Hal! 02:49, 28 December 2011 (UTC)