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Online mountaineer

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Time Traveler - which words were first used in print the year of your birth?
« on: Monday, Oct 19, 02:48 pm »
This is kind of fun. Merriam-Webster has a webpage where you can go to your birth year and find which words and phrases were first used in print that year. We tend to think some words have always been around, but some may be newer than you think.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler

For example, born in 1960 like my sister? Biomedical engineering, Eurodollar, brain drain, Montezuma's revenge, radar detector, thunder lizard and wide receiver made their debuts 60 years ago.
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Re: Time Traveler - which words were first used in print the year of your birth?
« Reply #1 on: Monday, Oct 19, 03:25 pm »
Lou Gehrig's Disease.    :whistle:
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Re: Time Traveler - which words were first used in print the year of your birth?
« Reply #2 on: Monday, Oct 19, 03:34 pm »
"Rockabilly" ...  or "Rock and Roller"  (It fits me)



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Re: Time Traveler - which words were first used in print the year of your birth?
« Reply #3 on: Monday, Oct 19, 03:40 pm »
Cuisenaire rod - I didn't have to look it up to know what these are.

FORTRAN - FORmula TRANslation, the math-science alternative to COmmon Business-Oriented Language.

Plugola

Thorazine - Yeah, it figures .......

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Re: Time Traveler - which words were first used in print the year of your birth?
« Reply #4 on: Monday, Oct 19, 03:42 pm »
Oxycodone
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Re: Time Traveler - which words were first used in print the year of your birth?
« Reply #5 on: Monday, Oct 19, 04:04 pm »
In the beginning..
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