Daily News | For word nerds, Twitter’s rebrand is for the birds
Now in 2023, Twitter is no more. In one of the more head-scratching rebrandings in history, Twitter has become X, andhas been around a lot longer. It was first used as a verb in the mid-19th century and as a noun 300 years before that. Now the word is once again just for the birds.
Dictionaries have adapted with increasing rapidity to technological changes. Google cofounder Larry Page had the first documented use ofas a verb in 1998, and both Merriam-Webster and Oxford English Dictionary added it in 2006 — eight years later., which had been in use as a verb since 1992, after an initial 1990 release of the photo-editing software. Merriam-Webster added it two years later, in 2008.
Word nerds have reacted with varying levels of consternation to this quicker rate of language change; I remember attending a copy-editing seminar in the late 2000s, at which attendees were aghast thatto be added to the dictionary only four years after its launch was a major feather in its cap.
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