It’s Time to Stop Calling it a Glove Compartment

Every year someone makes a big announcement adding new words to the dictionary, and then there’s another announcement of us losing some archaic words that nobody’s heard from in decades.  But what about the words that we still use, but have become completely inaccurate?

DailyRiffer has posted their list of words we still use, but shouldn’t.  Here’s a few. Check the rest out at dailyriffer.com.

  • – Pen pal
  • – Straphanger
  • – You sound like a broken record.
  • – They give him too much ink.
  • – DJ (for disc jockey)
  • – Caught on tape
  • – Stop the presses.
  • – Over the transom
  • – Smoke-filled room
  • – Paste job
  • – Double header