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Article: words: sarcastic yak captures picturesque motor-car
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 28, 1995
- Author:
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Before our Tuesday Juste a Mot series on new words in the
language gets too far into its swing, we ought to take a look at
the sort of words that are celebrating significant anniversaries
this year. Do the words that enter a language in a given year
provide a verbal portrait of the period? The evidence is far from
clear.
What did they put beneath carpets before underfelt entered the
language in 1895? With biopsy, caoline, mortician and motor-car all
dating from that year, one could be excused for identifying it as a
moment of great scientific and medical advance, but at the same
time a masochist with flagellomania made his first appearance, no
doubt boasting his masculinism. On a healthier ...
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