More words that entered the language around 1937: “Spam,” “telecast,” and “whoops.” This is part of a complete episode.
Here’s three more words from 1937.
This is the list that Dave Wilton is putting together on his wordorigins.org site.
Spam, as in the meat product.
Yeah, 1937.
Telecast, as a television broadcast.
And whoops, as in oops, I see what you did there.
Really?
Yeah, interesting.
Oops.
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