Talk:cannister

Is it truly obsolete? It's still used by The New Yorker:

"The copy editor from whom I inherited the comma shaker was herself not a fan of our style on commas; hence her painstaking creation of this one-of-a-kind item—a cannister (we spell it with two 'n's) about the size of a giant can of grated cheese, wrapped in brown paper flecked with hand-drawn commas, and topped with a perforated blue lid."

208.54.80.228 05:04, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The New Yorker is well-known for using outdated spellings - see the "style" section of the Wikipedia article. SemperBlotto (talk) 05:08, 16 October 2018 (UTC)