UK News 19-10-2004 who: Author Susie Dent what: Celebrates 100 years of "hip" language with new book when: This week snippet: "Some people became hip as early as 1904 and celebs in 1913. They discovered pop culture in 1921, kitsch five years later and decried dumbing down in 1933," says The Telegraph, previewing the Countdown expert`s new book of neologisms coined in each year of the past century. "Miss Dent was surprised to find that the word "sex", meaning sexual intercourse, was used for the first time only in 1929..." [... more]

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