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Tag: 20th-century words year by year

Posted on April 21, 2017September 29, 2020

“American” words in English: where would we be without them? They own the bulk of the shares

  “There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own…

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Posted on March 23, 2017September 28, 2020

Where does the word television come from? Twentieth-century words: the first quinquennium.

A few days ago, I started a daily tweet with two, or occasionally three, words per year for every year of the twentieth century, starting…

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