Apothecary

Noun. A druggist.

Once again, thank you Webster. Why did people stop using this word? It is still relevant, and has the same definition as the more modernly accepted pharmacist. You hear it only in plays (there always seem to be a need for an apothecary in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries) and while playing in the SCA. Why do we give up so easily on words that sound so damn good? Why do we keep adding words to the English language that mean the same thing as the ones that we already have?

I vote that we all start picking up perfectly good words that have fallen out of use and bring them back to life. I am going to be starting with apothecary.