Was the term “bed and breakfast” first used in 1978? (as well as “Tinseltown”)
Merriam-Webster have a fun online toy which you use to enter a year and purports to show you the words that first appeared in print that year. (I came across…
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2008: “How technical should dictionaries get in their definitions?”
Further continuing my rather self-indulgent nostalgia trip, here is a post I had entirely forgotten from 2008: A chap called Ammon Shea has written a a very funny sounding book about…
Séamus Sweeney 