"Restoral" : an old word I only learned from my ISP during an outage...

[steve2470]

According to http://www.kirkmahoney.com/blog/2008/06/restoral-vs-restoration/ the word restoral has been around since the early 1600's. In contrast, the much more familiar word restoration has been around since 1350.

When my ISP used it to indicate that my service was out and that it would be restored ("Restoral estimated by 0200" ), I thought surely, someone latched onto a fake word and used it. No, it is a real word.

Who knew my greedy, monopoly-aspiring ISP would teach me a new word.

[Glorfindel]

1. Thanks!

I love learning new words. I'll try to use it as soon as possible.

[NullTuples]

2. It seems pretty embedded in IT

Now that I think of it, PG&E has used it frequently over the last four or five years, too?