“...see how the words we create reflect the times we live in.”
August 19, 2017 11:27 AM Subscribe
Time/Traveler: a new tool that lets users look at the timing around when new words entered the print lexicon. [Merriam Webster] “Every day, new words are added to the English language. Sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re bad, and sometimes they’re codified as part of our cultural history by the fine folks updating our dictionaries. (A 2017 wishlist: Add the adjective “deadass” and ignore “bigly.”) The dictionarists (est. 2017) at Merriam-Webster have released a new tool that allows users to pinpoint when, exactly, this process starts happening. Time Traveler is an exhaustive listing of the origin of nearly every word you can think of, their dates assigned through the first time a given term made its way into print. ” [via: A.V. Club]
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