Step This Way To Uncover Your Birthday Word

While we all know that the Oxford English Dictionary grows annually, have you ever wondered what words signify your birth year? It might sound like an odd request, but the people behind the word-power decided to trace back the words for each year they added them to their collection… and now they’re sharing it with you. Oxford Dictionaries are also now offering you the chance to use an online tool which will allow you to then trace that word to the first known date for which it was used. Or if you’d rather, just have a quick rummage through the table of words below. Track Down Your Birth Word: Compiled by i100 using the Oxford Dictionary online search engine, we’re off to track down the first time ‘beatbox’ got used in a sentence… Hat tip to Oxford Dictionaries blog and i100