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One of the biggest ways our world changes in the language. Every year,New words and sentences are added to the dictionary and are part of our common vocabulary. In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic alone is aloneresponsible for adding "social distancing", "contract tracing" and "the widespread community" to theMerriam Webster dictionary. Think about what strangeness for a minute: the words that are now used regularly in your vernacular daily would seem almost no meaning less than a year ago.

Go back even further and it becomes particularly crazy. Many words and phrases that we take for granted, who have the impression of having been part of the way we have been communicating for generations, are really relatively new. Here are 25 words that many of us say all the time without thinking twice, but in many cases did not exist beforeThe 1970s. And for the lingo of the 70s that does not hold as well, checkThe best slang terms of the 1970s who are not cool today.

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A "factuch", as it was invented for the first time by the authorNorman mailer in hisBiography of 1973 ofMarilyn Monroe, are "facts that do not exist before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations that are not aunts that a product to manipulate emotion in the silent majority." There have been a lot of debate for exactly how much truth contained in factoides, with theWashington time Once argued that they are "something that looks like a fact, could be a fact, but in fact is not a fact". And for some clapping terms that will not help you to blend with young people, check50 obsolete words that age you instantly.

Before 1972, Watergate was just a luxury hotel and a desk complex in Washington, DC, but five burglars broke into the headquarters of the National Democratic Committee, which led to a dissolution of the government and Possible resignation focused on the scandalPresident Richard Nixon. And now "Watergate" - and sometimes just the suffix "-gate" - a quick and easy way to highlight corruption. From "deflategate" to "Bridgegate", if a scandal has a "door" at the end, you know it's bad.

When the British scientistRichard Dawkins came with the word "even" in his book from 1976The selfish geneThe internet decade of being invented, then he certainly did not speak of fun pictures that go viral online. But the spirit of it was the same thing. Its definition of the same replacement of the old Greek word "mimeam, "About translated as" Mimic ", associated with" Gene "-was" a cultural transmission unit ". So you have a line of direct influence between the old Greeks and the grumpy cat.

FirstATM (ATM) opened in a bank in Enfield, a suburb of London, all the way back in 1967. But ATMs as we know today - and the acronym became synonymous with "I must get Fast money "-prérit launched at the chemicals bank in Rockville Center, New York, just in time for the 1970s. As ads for the new machinepromised, "Our banks will open at 9 o'clock and will not close." And if you always remember your glory days in the grunge era, check20 SLAOT Terms of the 1990s person does not rely.

If you call someone "politically correct" in 2019, you probably do not introduce it asa compliment. But when these two words were used for the first time in print, as a means of describing the progressive values ​​of someone, it was not intended for an insult. Feminist scholar and activistToni Cade invented the sentence in his 1970 trial "The black woman," in whichShe said That "a man can not be politically correct and a chauvinist too."

It wasBill Cardoso, the editor of theBoston Globe Sunday Magazine, whofirst used the word "Gonzo" to describe violently subjective journalism (and probably elaborate) ofHunter S. Thompson, all the way back in June 1970. Thompson so loved the word he took for himself and often used him to describe his prisoners to take away, hisRolling stone stories to books likeFear and Must in Las Vegas. "But what was the story?" He asked inFear and hatred. "Nobody had bother to say. So we should do it drum alone ... Do it now: pure gonzo journalism."

According toMerriam Webster, "Trifecta" started as a horseback riding lingo in the 70s, where you could win wholesarily by betting on which the horses would first end, second and third, in the exact order. Even casual fans had a chance to make good bets during the 1970s, a golden era of thoroughbred races with Titans like the Secretariat, Seattle SLW and affirmed. Soon "Trifecta" was used to describe pretty much everything that came in sets of three, including winning performers or performers. And for the words you used and heard constantly in the more recent years, check100 words in slang that dominated the years 2010.

In the 21st century, "Gigabyte" is a common language in technological conversations. (Remember the days of the iPod Touch.) But return when the word was fed up in 1975, according toMerriam WebsterIt was, for most consumers, purely theoretical. After all, at the time, most of the technological specifications were measured in terms ofkilobytes (or 1/1024 000e gigabyte). And for linguistic backstories, checkThe amazing origins of the terms of the argot of every day that you constantly use.

When the general engines did the "decision to reduce"In 1975, in 1975, focusing on more efficient fuel-efficient cars and trucks, it was the first time many Americans had heard this new strange word. It seemed so proactive and friendly, much less scary as explanations such as "eliminate" or, as "reduction of age size" would mean that more and more companies have adapted it, "you have shot. And for more fascinating linguistic facts delivered in your inbox,Sign up for our daily newsletter.

When the melody of a song ends in the head and simply will not disappear, we all refer to it as a "worm". But this word was not one thing before at least 1978, when it was used for the first time by the authorDesmond Bagley in his novelFly away. "I fell in a blind and stupid rhythm and a song was created in my mind, what the Germans call a" furniture worm "," he writes. "Something that turns around the head and you can not get rid of that. A bloody foot before the next bloody foot."

It is quite strange trying to remember one hour before "e-mail", where any written correspondence required paper and shipping. But it's really breathtaking when you learn that theword has been created By a 14 year old computer, Prodigy in Newark, New Jersey, in 1978 ... years before the email is part of everyone's life!

It is possible thatPOST-IT NotesOne of the largest inventions of the twentieth century has more than one inventor. A scientist namedDr. Spencer Silver Accidentally created the adhesive post-computer technology in 1968, which he called a "problem without problem". He did not do much with her until one of his colleagues,Fry, thought that miracle adhesive could work as a way of bookmarking pages. The first post-it notes were sold in 1977 as "Press N" PEEL "Bookmarks, and then rebranded as" Post-SA "in 1979.

Of course, "911" may not be technically a word, but these three digits placed together result as one thing: "To help!" According toNational Emergency AssociationThe 911 was used for the first time to make an emergency call in 1968. Then in 1973 after the Office of the White Telecommunications House published a statement - it became rooted in the brain of each man , woman and child. (Fun Make: The numbers 9, 1 and 1 were chosen because they had not yet been used in this combination for a regional code.)

No one lifts more eyebrows when you say that an activity gave you a "endorphine hive", but we would all be in the black endorphins if it was not forChoh Li, a California chemist who first isolated the biochemistry of the pituitary gland in 1975 and discovered that wheninjected into the brainIt was "48 times more powerful than morphine".

"Spaz", short for spastic, has been around for at least the 60s - theNew York Times explained in 1965 that "spas" was another way of saying "you are strictly 23-skidoo" - but it did not really participate in the popular culture before 1978, when aSaturday Night Live Sketch called "The Nerds" introduced us to Chaz The Spaz (Steve Martin), known for observations like "it's a fabulous scientific fair project ... not!" When another character named spas (played byJack Blum) has left a lasting impression in the 1979Bill Murray Camp comedyMeatballs, "Spaz" has become the preferred way to describe an exciting and excessive nerd.

If you've ever called yourself or someone else, a "sofa potato", you owe a gratitude debt toTom IacinoPasadena, California. An anti-nutrition and copy defender, it was part of a group that affectionately affected as "tubers of breasts" because of their affinity for watching endless hours rather than leaving the house and Break a sweat. Iacino allegedly proposed the term evocativeDuring a phone call On July 15, 1976, and the name of the group was quickly changed for the sofa potato, which welcomed new members to "get out of the closet and go to bed and be counted."

Granola has been around since the 1870s, whenDr. John Kellogg created a healthy food disgusting so dense and hidden, it had to besoaked during the night in the milk before eating. But Granola did not find enthusiastic customers before 1972, whenJim Matson, the said "Father of Modern Granola, "Began to sell natural heartland cereals. Suddenly," Granola "has become a shortcut for" healthy breakfast ".

Short short shorts are around since as long as people wanted to show their legs. But the term "hot pants" made its cultural debut in 1970 in the magazineWomen's clothing dailywhere it has been used to describe short short shorts made from tissues such as Velvet and Satin. He has generated a new trend of fashion, with everyone fromJackie Onassis ToElizabeth Taylor Seeing how hot pants could be short. In 1971,James Brown Provide the soundtrack of the original band of the trend with its R & B R & B number "hot pants (it must use what it has had to get what it wants)".

The teams had "winning" seasons about as long as human beings played sports. But the first team to describe this way, the Maryland Coast, this honor was given in 1974, whenLocal paper In Colombia, South Carolina greeted them as "the basketball team of the winning university of the nation".

You do not have to be from the Mid West to know that people living in the Michigan upper peninsula are called "yoopers". This catchy name is the result of a competition held in 1979 by theEscanaba daily press, asking readers if they could find the ideal demonship for U.P. Some of the names that have not made the cup includes skeeter-eater (as in mosquitoes), Michupper, Turkey Bush and Pastian (as in Pasty).

When the first Walmart opened in 1962, it was a small mom and pop shop in Arkansas. In 1970, they changed the name of "Wal-Mart" - planned to make it more obvious that the store was a "mart" belonging to a guy namedSam Walton-And expanded to more than one hundred stores throughout the country. Nearly five decades later, Wal-Marts became ubiquitous nationally. In early 2018, the companychanged their name Back to Walmart.

"An ordinary jukebox is to listen"Daisuke Inoue Osaka, Japanonce explainedof his invention. "It would be a jukebox to sing." His jukebox to sing, which he nicknamed "karaoke", became extremely popular in the Japanese bars in the early 1970s and the craze spread soon worldwide. Unfortunately, increasing has never made a penny of his innovation in history, but he has no regrets. If he had tried a patented karaoke, he said, "It would never have been kidnapped like that."

When a married couple has a divorce, there is often an alimony to pay. But when a couple has been cohabiting for years but has never knotted the knot, a break can always come with financial responsibilities. "Palimony," which combines the words "Pal" and "Penie", was suggested for the first time in a California court in 1977 byCelebrity divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson. When the long friend of the actorLee Marvin He left nothing with nothing after their split, Mitchelson supported before the Tribunal she deserved a part of his fortune of $ 3.6 million. The Supreme Court of California accepted and Mitchelson called it "the largest setback to show business sinceJohn Wilkes Booth. "

Being "awake" - beyond social or cultural injustices - might seem like an idea entirely of the twenty-first century (or, if we go through the Liberal Arts Campus metric, the end of the 10th century). Nobody spoke of being "awake" in the 70s, right? In fact, the whole concept of Wokeness is native to a 1971 game byBarry Beckham calledGarvey lives, on the black nationalist of Jamaican.Marcus Garvey. As a character announces during this piece of revolutionary theater, "I slept all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey awakened me, I am gon remained awake. And I'm gon helping to wake up others black folks. "

I just said that the word "asbestos" is enough to hit fear in the hearts of the owners. But the reputation of asbestos that the public enemy number one for clean breathing has not really caught as the 70s, when the Environmental Protection Agency Start by prohibiting building materials containing asbestos. In a decade, "asbestos" left "what is it? It looks like a French delicacy" Oh my God, get it out of the house, get it from the hoooouse ! "