1908 Words
Dave Wilton, Sunday, February 05, 2012
The Oxford English Dictionary has 490 words with first citations from 1908. In that year, airliners and planes plied the skies, but didn’t yet reach the stratosphere; you might underdress by wearing a Peter Pan; dicks could investigate crime scenes; Pernod and spumante might be used to drown one’s troubles; and bristlecones redefined what was meant by old-growth forest.
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