The Queen's English

[L Verge]

I have a vague recollection of learning that a score meant twenty somewhere during elementary school, but I can't say I have ever heard it used except in the Gettysburg Address.

Another term that is seldom used today (at least to my knowledge) is "parlor." I know that RogerM can tell us that the word is derived from the French for "to talk." Somewhere in the early-1900s, it seems to have been changed to "living room." I'm not even sure we call it that any more. In the 1970s, the parlor/living room seemed to be the pretty room that no one went into unless you had special company. We inherited a "rec room" instead, and that now seems to be the "family room."