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Time travel through the Merriam Webster Dictionary.

 
 
Reply Thu 12 Oct, 2017 11:56 am
Merriam Webster Time Traveler
A few choice words from 1971:
archaeoastronomy
Beaujolais nouveau
catch-22
fajita
jug wine
reboot
username
white hole (archnemesis to black holes?)

What are some noteworthy words to come out of the year you were born?
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dalehileman
 
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Reply Thu 12 Oct, 2017 12:13 pm
@tsarstepan,
Tsar thanks for them ! as I'ma wordfella too

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/slang/1930s-slang.html
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jespah
 
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Reply Thu 12 Oct, 2017 12:21 pm
@tsarstepan,
I got porn
AK-47
miniskirt
ramen

and

Belgian waffle

It's going to be a really interesting 1962 party.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Thu 12 Oct, 2017 12:21 pm
@tsarstepan,
The world's first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City in July 1935, the month and year of my birth. Then, about two years ago when my wife and I visited J-town in San Jose, I got a ticket for overstaying the meter. That cost me $40. How insulting! LOL
Also, I was born in Sacramento, CA, the same month and year the M Street, Tower Bridge, was built. It's still there. https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=picture+of+sacramento%27s+tower+bridge&fr=yhs-mozilla-002&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fd%2Fd2%2FSacramento_Tower_Bridge_%282007%29.jpg#id=2&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fd%2Fd2%2FSacramento_Tower_Bridge_%282007%29.jpg&action=click
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Roberta
 
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Reply Fri 13 Oct, 2017 10:39 pm
For my birth year:

bite-size
break through
fly-by-night
human relations
Latino
over-the-hill
potty training
roadkill
wall-to-wall
dalehileman
 
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Reply Fri 13 Oct, 2017 10:46 pm
@Roberta,
Rob ou ust be younger'n me
Roberta
 
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Reply Sat 14 Oct, 2017 02:13 am
@dalehileman,
I am. I'm a baby boomer.
dalehileman
 
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Reply Sat 14 Oct, 2017 10:56 am
@Roberta,
Quote:
baby boomer
20-36 Wow Rob
I''m at least 3.4 times your age

I see from your tags you're 'most busy as me
Roberta
 
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Reply Sat 14 Oct, 2017 11:19 am
@dalehileman,
You've got the wrong years for a baby boomer. I'm far older than 36. I was born soon after WWII.
dalehileman
 
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Reply Sat 14 Oct, 2017 01:43 pm
@Roberta,
Wow agin Rob, ur right, my head is in even in worse shape than I had thot
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ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Sat 14 Oct, 2017 02:51 pm
@tsarstepan,
I added my year ('41) and got a large block of words. I'm just figuring out how very off my antique computer is acting. I should shut up about all this, since I'm getting a new one, except it is sort of interesting:

I get an opportunity to tag each time on every post (what?)

That may be why my last thread's title showed up with part of a comment -
maybe I double added it as a second tag was offered.

I don't blame a2k at all and I'm starting to not blame myself, at least not all the time. I should stop posting, and will, but, in its way, this weirdness is fascinating.

I'll try to take a screen photo to show I'm not off my rockers, but that probably doesn't work anymore.
The only browser left (speaking of left, the browsers left me) is Safari, and I don't remember Safari acting like this stuff.. but, maybe.
ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Sat 14 Oct, 2017 03:24 pm
@ossobucotemp,
I tried to photo that even Tsar's first post on this thread asked me to tag, which I saw and can still see - but the ability to screen photo is gone gone gone.

This could be a movie, if I cared enough to write the script.


I'd use my own camera, but it's in decrepitville.

Maybe I'll buy a cheapo one.


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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Sun 15 Oct, 2017 05:47 pm
@Roberta,
I was born before WWII. My year of birth was when social security was established. Interesting US history on pensions.
Quote:
The first national pension program for soldiers was actually passed in early 1776, prior even to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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