Lignatile


Lignatile


I imagine the death of this word, and it is a very sad one. We have paved most of the last remaining wooded spaces, and without the trunks and branches of trees there are no more things to grow on and in that wood. What is worse: the majority of the woods we do have left have been saved in such small numbers and for such specific reasons (a monument in nature, usually, as is the case with Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Muir woods, etc) that they end up sticking out amongst the rest of the land like mutants, lepers or worse. Only saving the special ones, a sad selection process, and all those places flattened and cleared just because they had no "natural wonder" - it's no wonder this word died. It used to mean: "living or growing on wood."

We don't live on it, with it, or in it, nor do we grow beside it, within it, or around it; we certainly have no need for the word any longer.