[HN Gopher] Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Search Words by Fi... ___________________________________________________________________ Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Search Words by First Known Use Date Author : Tomte Score : 44 points Date : 2022-05-18 18:27 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.merriam-webster.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.merriam-webster.com) | buildsjets wrote: | Dataset is incomplete and/or untrustworthy. Just on a quick | scroll through, it says that the term "Goliath Grouper" was first | used in 2001. I used to fish recreationally in the Florida Keys | in the 1980s- 1990s, and at that time, there was already a | movement to rename the Jewfish as the Goliath Grouper, for | obvious reasons. A quick check on Google nGram confirms this, | here is a usage from 1996: | | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reef_Fish_Fishery_Gulf_... | rexreed wrote: | Very much so - many of these words attributed to 1522 must have | something to do with some publication they can attribute these | words to, but surely they were in print usage before. Maybe | this is a Gutenberg thing: https://www.merriam- | webster.com/time-traveler/1521 | criddell wrote: | "Hard pass" is from 2014? I would have guessed it was much older. | burkaman wrote: | This is specifically for usage in print, so it's possible | that's right for some definition of "print". Here's an example | from Pitch Perfect (2012) though: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZfPi-DJso | e12e wrote: | Here's a word described as being popularized in the 1960s | with a first known use in 1979: | | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biophilia | | (although it does mention the meaning has changed a little) | lancebeet wrote: | Many of these seem dubious but there seem to be no sources so | there's no way to check what they actually refer to. Pretty | annoying. | WalterBright wrote: | It has "brainiac" from 1975. It long predated that as the name of | one of Superman's super-villians that had a giant brain. | jawns wrote: | It's ironic that each page of Merriam-Webster's site tells you | how to properly cite it so references to its definitions are | properly attributed ... yet it does not cite its sources for | these "first time used in print" dates. It would be a lot easier | to verify their accuracy if the site told you WHERE each term was | first used in print. | sweetheart wrote: | Who knew the good folks alive in 1500 would be getting so | _frisky_. | bitlax wrote: | "Each generation thinks it invented sex." -Robert Heinlein ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-18 23:00 UTC)