What do the words nerd, disco, pager and Eurovision have in common? They all appeared in print in the 1950s as did the expression, Generation X. Words of the 1950s make up this list, as part of our continuing series of words of the decades.

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Source: Oxford English Dictionary timelines (oed.com), including recorded citations
Background from presentationmagazine.com



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