anabolic steroid- and on an on for several hundred entries. Try their Time Traveler. The database sorts the words year-by-year back through the 1500s, and by centuries for entries with origins older than that.
audiology
bite-size
buzzword
Caesar salad
cafe au lait spot
cardiac catheterization
circuitry
clinical trial
crawl space
crown molding
decubitus ulcer
dental technician
deoxyribonuclease
digital computer
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29 October 2018
English language time machine
Merriam-Webster has reconfigured their database so that you can now look up all the words that were invented (or recorded) in any given year. I found the following words were invented the year I was born:
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When a new word first appears in print, it typically has been around for some time already - sometimes decades.
ReplyDeleteYay! '46.
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