11 Slang Terms You Think Are New But Are In Fact Ancient

But the first recorded use of the word was in 1941. Hipsters have been trying too hard to look cool for more than seven decades. And they really haven’t changed that much: Norman Mailer was writing about “the self-protective irony of the hipster” in 1958.



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14 slang terms that dominated 2014

A lot of weird stuff happened in 2014, from the Ellen DeGeneres super selfie and Charles Manson getting married in jail. But perhaps the strangest of all is the vocabulary we picked up this year.



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Revealed: The word of the year is 'vape'

After much discussion, Oxford Dictionaries have revealed their word of the year: 'vape'. Eminent lexicographer Jonathon Green is unimpressed It’s that time of the year.



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