Thread: English words of 'recent' origin
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Old 05-25-2014, 11:25 AM   #4
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OK is a brilliant example.

Robot is OK , but is more like the many modern words for things that didn't exist before the modern era.

Ditto for Google.

But I think there must be lots more like Hello, Cheers and OK....
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