“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language / And next year’s words await another voice”*…
A few of the words first used in the year of your correspondent’s birth…
Enter a year (in recorded history) and find the words first used then: Merriam-Webster’s Time Traveler.
* T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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As we root around for roots, we might recall that it was on this date in 1961 that the Beatles played their first evening gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. One month earlier, fresh back from Hamburg, they had played a lunchtime set; the club, which had focused until then on jazz, was experimenting with rock. The test was a success, so the club’s owner, Ray McFall, declared Tuesday nights “Blue Jean Guest Night,” and kicked off with Dale Roberts & The Jay Walkers, The Remo Four, and the Beatles. The band swiftly became a regular fixture at the Cavern, attracting a loyal audience to over 290 performances until their final appearance on August 3, 1963. It was, of course, at the Cavern Club that Brian Epstein first saw the Beatles.
The Beatles (with Pete Best on drums) at the Cavern Club. Best was replaced by Ringo the following year.