Original sentence: "Jock" is the term commonly used today, and fulfills much the same role.This epithet, however, was dying out fast by the 1880s, and was obsolete by the 20th Century
Edited sentence: "Jock" is the term commonly used today, and fulfils much the same role.This vulgar epithet, however, was dying out fast by the 1880s, and was obsolete by the 20th Century