Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster

Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Enter a date below to see the words first recorded on that year.

1 comment:

Don Coffin said...

Just looking at the year of my birth, I saw a lot of words that almost had to pre-date 1948. I googled one: Gibson, presumably the cocktail. and Wikipedia gave me this:

"The oldest published recipe for the Gibson is found in the 1908 book, The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them by William Boothby."

So they're off by at least 40 years.