'Betwixt', 'amiss': active vocabulary?

[Tamara]

Hi

betwixt
amiss

Are they old-fashioned words? Bookish?
Do you use them?

‘betwixt and between’
‘your work is going amiss today’
‘did I speak amiss?’
‘it would not be amiss for you to make an apology’
‘nothing comes amiss to a hungry stomach’
‘take (/think) amiss’
‘what is amiss?’ (= what happened?)

How do the expressions sound for you?
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[Yankee]

Hi Tamara

Amiss is a "normal" word for me but betwixt sounds quite unusual. (AmE!)

Amy

[Alan]

Hi Tamara,

Amiss is all right. Makes me think of the saying A miss is as good as a mile - totally irrelevant but had to say it.

Betwixt is an archaic form and probably is best known in the pair betwixt and between meaning neither one nor the other. If you are betwixt and between jobs, it means you haven't actually got a job at the moment, you've left one and are hoping to get another one very soon. It also pops up as twixt in the saying:

[Tamara]

Hi Amy and Alan,

Thank you.
OK. I'll try to learn amiss

twixt?
Some old English words look so charming and are attractive (for me). All those 'thee', etc.
So... bewitching

[Jamie (K)]

[Tamara]

Hi Jamie

Concerning another (survived) old word (and an ancient character) that bewitched my mind:
one of my recent - very! interesting - excursion to history (mythology) was called by the word Trickster used by my Russian friend – he is a psychotherapist – to name an archetype.

I’ve found some 'etymological' sources (and some quite impressive old pictures) and now I know a bit more about it.

But what about the suffix –ster?
English contains many words with '-ster'.

On the one hand, it seems to be quite anxious.
On the other hand, I see it to be 'fashionably' used to create brand names…
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[Jamie (K)]

[Tamara]

Another 'creative' suffix is -hood.
Brotherhood.
Sisterhood

Or am I mistaken and it isn’t 'true antique English' (and the suffix had come to English from somewhere)?
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