Friday, January 20, 2006
American Word Origins
Answers.com has added American Word Origins to its database. Now you can determine easily that you-all entered our nation's lexicon in 1824; airlines originate in 1813, long before airplanes existed; and groovy doesn't belong to the hippies since it was born in 1937 (African-American jazz musicians coined it in the early 1930s).
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