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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

That word is older than you think! Try this quiz

This is fun! I'm always telling people "That usage is older than you think", and here's a quiz from Oxford Dictionaries to test your intuitions. I got 4/5, but that was because I guessed "rose-tinted" was about a century older than it actually is. 

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/11/timeline-challenge/

 

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