What are five words that have been created and added to English in the last 50 years?
Thousands of words have entered the language in the past 100 years. Here is a partial list:x-ray, or röntgenograph(November 8, 1895, by Röntgen)radar (1941) from Radio Detection And Ranginglaser (1960) from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiationblackhole (1968)meme (1976)prion (1982)lidar (late 90s) from Light Detection And RangingInternet (1974)hyperspace (1934)robotics (1941)waldo (1942)ansible (1966)phaser (1966)ringworld (1971)replicant (1982)cyberspace (1984)xenocide (1991)metaverse (1992)alien space bats (1998)teleojuxtaposition (2003)carpetbagging (19th century)genocide (1943)Dixiecrat (1948)meritocracy (1958)pro-life (1961)homophobia (1969)Californication (1970s)heterosexism (1979)glocalisation (1980s)astroturfing (1986)Islamophobia (1991)fauxtography (1996)corporatocracy (2000s)Islamofascism (2001)santorum (2003)Chindia (2004)Saddlebacking (2009)Accenture (2001), derived from 'Accent on the future'Acette (2002), derived from 'ace', meaning expertise, and the encapsulating suffix 'ette'; when read together as aye~set signifying 'expertise encapsulated'.Protiviti (2002), derived from professionalism and proactivity as well as independence and integrity.Bauhaus (early 20th century)blobject (1990s)fabject (2004), a fabricated 3-D objectkirkyan (2006)moin (early 20th century)prequel (1958)posterized (c. 1980s) ("posterize" also has existed for some time as a term for an image-editing technique; its neologistic sports usage is completely unrelated)queercore (mid 1980s)blog (late 1990s)chav (early 2000s)webinar (early 2000s)truthiness (2005) (already existed as an obscure word previously recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary, but its 2005 usage on the Colbert Report was a neologistic one, with a new definition)fauxhawk (late 1990s)aspirinhooverlaundromatlinguisticsretronym (popularized in 1980)backronym (1983)aptronym (2003; popularized by Franklin Pierce Adams)snowclone (2004)xeroxgooglingphotoshoppingprotologism (2005)
