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       Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Search Words by First Known Use
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       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:
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       | 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:
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           | 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
        
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