Talk:obsolescent

Usage note
Isn't it incorrect to say "soon-to-be obsolescent" as it is used on electronics?


 * Yes. Sofixit?  :-)     --Connel MacKenzie 16:10, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

First attested
I have removed the claim that the word was first attested around 1780. This seems to be a few decades too late. Samuel Johnson uses the word in his dictionary in 1755 in a non-mentiony way. I also found this 1761 usage, albeit in italics. Spinning Spark  16:53, 28 August 2015 (UTC)