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in a traditional literary text such as a nursery rhyme or the deliberate use of a style characteristic of an earlier age--for example, in his 1960 novel The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth writes in an 18th-century style. Archaic words or expressions may have distinctive emotional connotations--some can be humorous (forsooth), some highly formal (What say you?), and

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