1908 Words

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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