Paul Whybrow
Full Member
- Jun 20, 2015
Merriam Webster's online dictionary site has added a feature they call Time Traveller.
Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster
It's a vaguely unsettling way of dating oneself, especially when you realise how young some words are, and also how many have fallen into disuse...because you've certainly never heard of them!![Confused :confused: :confused:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png)
I was born in 1954, which spawned such words as boonies, buyback, cash flow, junk mail, sleaze and wheeler-dealer. The word wonk also appeared—which means: "a person preoccupied with arcane details or procedures in a specialized field." Considering how much I study the world of writing and publishing, I'm a wonk! My spellchecker doesn't like it, suggesting that I replace the 'o' with an 'a'!![Er... what? o_O o_O](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f635.png)
Anyone in need of writing prompts could use the words from their year to create a story, using every one.
What words heralded your entry into the world?
Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster
It's a vaguely unsettling way of dating oneself, especially when you realise how young some words are, and also how many have fallen into disuse...because you've certainly never heard of them!
![Confused :confused: :confused:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png)
I was born in 1954, which spawned such words as boonies, buyback, cash flow, junk mail, sleaze and wheeler-dealer. The word wonk also appeared—which means: "a person preoccupied with arcane details or procedures in a specialized field." Considering how much I study the world of writing and publishing, I'm a wonk! My spellchecker doesn't like it, suggesting that I replace the 'o' with an 'a'!
![Er... what? o_O o_O](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f635.png)
Anyone in need of writing prompts could use the words from their year to create a story, using every one.
What words heralded your entry into the world?
![education-teaching-twerk-twerp-dictionaries-new_word-definitions-tcrn1284_low.jpg](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/education-teaching-twerk-twerp-dictionaries-new_word-definitions-tcrn1284_low.jpg)