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Every year, new words, senses and changes in word usage are added to the American Heritage Dictionary. (Pixabay)
This episode originally aired on May 13, 2021.
A neologism is a new word, usage, or expression.
Successful word-coinages, those that stay in currency for a good long time, tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely ponder when and where they were first minted.
Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher: we explore
The Hidden History of Coined Words with author Ralph Keyes.
Guest:
BBC Radio 4 - Radio 4 in Four - Coinages that changed the world – and some that tried to bbc.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bbc.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Listen • 50:29
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Every year, new words, senses and changes in word usage are added to the American Heritage Dictionary. (Pixabay)
A neologism is a new word, usage, or expression.
Successful word-coinages, those that stay in currency for a good long time, tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely ponder when and where they were first minted.
Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher: we explore
The Hidden History of Coined Words with author Ralph Keyes.
Guest:
Irish playwright and poet, 1854–1900
The things of nature do not really belong to us; we should leave them to our children as we have received them.
Speech, Ottawa, 12 May 1882
In conclusion, Oscar Wilde died in 1900, and the quotation appeared in the 1936 book “Oscar Wilde Discovers America”. The notes section at the end of the book did not specify the documentation the authors used to verify the quotation. Thus,
QI is uncertain how to evaluate the credibility of the attribution to Wilde.
Image Notes: Public domain image of the painting “The Equatorial Jungle” by Henri Rousseau circa 1909. The image has been cropped and resized.
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