Emotions

I haven't seen "Alas and alack!" since I was a teenager. However, "Goody!" as a sarcastic response to an inappropriate reward is not as uncommon.

Goody!

Teacher: Since many of you haven't been reading the assigned chapters of "The Gulag Archipelago," we will have a pop quiz once a week on the chapters you should have read.

Students: Oh, goody!

Anonymous I learned "Alas!" and "Goody" at my school. Do you think these words are still common? Not any more?

I never hear "Alas!" as a standalone exclamation; it sounds positively antiquated. I do see the word in writing sometimes, say in a sentence like "We have not, alas, been able to persuade them". I might occasionally use it like that myself. You couldn

Anonymous I learned "Alas!" and "Goody" at my school. Do you think these words are still common? Not any more?

Not anymore.

I'm not a native speaker of English, so I don't know if it's common or not, but Alas is used sort of a lot by Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth from the series Futurama who happens to be old.( If that means anything at all.)