Babes and Babies
A search of Pemberley.com's electronic texts, shows that the word "baby" appears seven times (Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Mansfield Park), "infant" appears four times in the same novels and "babe" is never used.
A 19th Century word to use on All Hallows Eve
Vampyrarchy this word, rooted in the word vampire, was coined in the 1820s and refers to a parasitic group of politicians. I found out about this word from my set of Forgotten English Knowledge Cards™, which is too bad as…