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Enter a date below to see the words first recorded on that year. To learn more about First Known Use dates, click here.
- 1960. So many words were first used in 1960 that it seems more practical if we just list the highlights (to see all the words that were new in 1960 or for any year, click on the heading for that year, and you’ll be taken to Time Traveler‘s listing).
- 1961. 1961 brought us more batteries and a term for the busiest shopping day of the year. AA battery. Affirmative Action. Black Friday. Down Syndrome. Object code.
- 1962. This was the year that the first touch-tone phones were introduced to customers and the fancy office where the president works got a name. CPU. Oval Office.
- 1963. In 1963, the word ‘disco’ was coined to describe the music played in discotheques. Disco. Hip-huggers. Mind-expanding. Space walk. Source code.
Mar 13, 2018 · While looking something else up, I came across Merriam-Webster's new online "Time Traveler" feature today. It allows you to browse to see what words were first used in print for a particular year ...
Oct 29, 2018 · Earliest written or printed use available. They also go on to explain that “the date most often does not mark the very first time that the word was used in English. Many words were in spoken use ...
The date is for the earliest written or printed use that the editors have been able to discover. The date is subject to change. Many of the dates provided will undoubtedly be updated as evidence of still earlier use emerges. The First Known Use Date will appear in one of three styles: For the Old English period (700-1099), "before 12th century ...
e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...
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Jun 28, 2023 · Viewed 4k times. 1. I already know how to use the Ngram to check the frequency, And how to use the use the date ranges with Google books to find old usage of a word in medieval books. But how to check the first use of an English word for instance (I'm mainly interested for English, but I'd like to check in other languages too eventually)
