Birthday words

Lingua Franca 2014-05-09

Summary:

The OED has a "birthday words" feature: Do you know which words entered the English language around the same time you entered the world? Use our OED birthday word generator to find out! We’ve scoured the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) to find words with a first known usage for each year from 1900 to 2004. Simply select the relevant […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=12296

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Gudgeon and gist » Language Log

Tags:

words words words

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

05/09/2014, 06:00

Date published:

05/09/2014, 04:22