We vividly remember when certain movies, TV shows, and songs came out, but what about when new words are introduced into the English language? Which words have come along since you’ve been on the planet, and which words are about as old as you are?

Oxford Dictionaries makes it easy to find out with their Birthday Word Generator. All you do is click on the decade of your birth, then your birth year, to see a word that was first documented that year.

Some interesting examples:

‘hands-on’ – 1905

‘airmail’ – 1919

‘air-conditioned’ – 1927

‘face-lift’ – 1939

‘mobile phone’ – 1945

‘artificial intelligence’ – 1955

‘chocoholic’ – 1961

‘guilt trip’ – 1972

‘shopaholic’ – 1984

‘bling’ – 1999

‘bromance’ - 2001

I was born in 1963. According to the ‘Birthday Word Generator’ my word is:

Cyberculture, n.
Meaning: The social conditions brought about by widespread automation and computerization.

Who knew more than 50 years later that word would take on a whole new meaning in a world where personal computers are now commonplace, not the stuff of 1963 science fiction?

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