New Words and Words in the News – Supplement Number 2, Spring 1949. Funk & Wagnalls Company: Publisher's of the New Standard Dictionaries

(New York): Funk & Wagnalls, 1949.

Price: $125.00

Unbound. Supplement Number 2. Small quarto sheet folded to make four pages. Measuring 5½" x 8" closed. Light owner name on the first page and a light horizontal fold, near fine. A "flash view of the American language in the process of its continual growth and change." Includes the words Americanocracy, Anacom ("An electrically operated analytic computing machine..."), Cybernetics, Discophile ("A collector... of phonograph recordings"), Onion Economy, Psychoquack, Telejuke ("A juke box equipped for television"...obviously), Winston Churchill's "Twilight War," and Xerography, among many others. An interesting mid-Century linguistic snapshot.

Item #622963

item image