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July 7, 2012 8:51 am
On wordorigins.org, etymologist Dave Wilton is going through the Oxford English Dictionary year by year to find the earliest citations for various words, which offer an unusual linguistic glimpse into that particular year. The year 1937, for example, is the first in which we see the terms "four-by-four," "cliffhanger," and "iffy." This is part of a complete episode.