How to find your birthday word Now you can find out your "birthday word" – words that were ‘born’ around the same time you were through the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), who provide an online search tool which allows you to find the first known date for which a word was used.
You won't have to search. It's all on the page at the link. Mine is "bad-mouth," which is a little surprising. I didn't know it had been around that long.
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Oenophillic
/And I don't even like wine.
I'm Acronym. Ginger is Mobile Phone (yes she is, always on the phone - ha).
How appropriate - ours is TV.
TV for me as well...how boring...(and I watch so little, outside of baseball season)...
Cyberculture. I'm really surprised it's that old.
Queue-jumping. Not even an American word. Pfui!
Mine is 1971. Though the word REBOOT, I was told is: ''Kicking someone in the butt twice.''
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Reboot - verb - Computing. To boot (a computer, operating system, etc.) again after a power failure.
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