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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts) Sun Jun 30, 2019, 03:09 PM Jun 2019

Here's a bit of fun

punch in your birthdate...or any date...top of this page, and a list of words that were first used that year will appear, or so says Miriam Webster..

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

you can then B click on a word and open it into a google definition page.

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Here's a bit of fun (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 OP

It is amazing the words that were first coined 50 or 60 years ago that one would have assumed hlthe2b Jun 2019 #1

I'm not too sure how accurate these dates are, tho dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #2

I recall an alt key on early 60s teletype ASR 33 Yonnie3 Jun 2019 #4

My birth year Ohiogal Jun 2019 #3

Oooh, mine has a lot of good words ProudLib72 Jun 2019 #5

1952 so many words that are important today! Delmette2.0 Jun 2019 #6

Are Miriam and Merriam related? Harker Jun 2019 #7

hlthe2b

(102,188 posts)

1. It is amazing the words that were first coined 50 or 60 years ago that one would have assumed

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Sun Jun 30, 2019, 03:14 PM

Jun 2019

were current to at most a decade ago...

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

2. I'm not too sure how accurate these dates are, tho

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 30, 2019, 03:19 PM

Jun 2019

For 1968, "alt-key" ???

Gaijin ?????

"noogie" maybe, but I seem to remember knowing and using the word before '68.

Yonnie3

(17,427 posts)

4. I recall an alt key on early 60s teletype ASR 33

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 30, 2019, 03:36 PM

Jun 2019

It was officially called alt-mode, but we just said alt. I serviced those noisy beasts back in the day.

ETA: maybe the new word was the hyphenated alt-key.