Past words heard

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

> I was listening to the radio one morning this week and heard the word
> "riprap" used

Was "riprap" a fictionary word?  I run into that one all the time, as it
commonly comes up at meetings for my volunteer position on the town
conservation commission.

I was suprised recently when I heard "contango" used (don't remember
whether it was radio or a web article), because oil futures had gone
fully contango for the first time.

Jean-Joseph