> ...it's just one of those words that had kind of drifted off into obsolescence after Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon. https://news.google.com/search?q=croo

> ...it's just one of those words that had kind of drifted off into obsolescence after Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon. https://news.google.com/search?q=crook&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen https://news.google.com/search?q=crook&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=U... Excluding Crook as a name, it still seems to be in pretty common usage. It seems far more likely there is just regional variation. Most of the articles seem to be either from England or from the east coast. I heard the word in the Midwest all the time, although I can't say I've ever heard anyone on the west coast use the word.