Do you know the origin of the modern word skates, or what a quacksalver was? Have you ever known anyone who was forswunke? These are but a few of the 48 lost or "misplaced" Old English words that linguist and historian Jeffrey Kacirk has gathered for this deck of Knowledge Cards. Each card in this deck presents a word on one side and its definition on the other, presenting a collection that is far from blash and could never be branded an inkhornism!
