What words are as old as you are?

For instance, D Magazine was born in 1974, which makes us 52 years old. The words that were first recorded by Merriam-Webster that year include: Afropop, alternative music, bunker mentality, carpaccio, endarterectomy, immunocompromised, sonographer, and touch screen. “Many words were in spoken use for decades or even longer before they passed into the written language,” the company says. “The date is for the earliest written or printed use that the editors have been able to discover.” If you’d like to see what a 1974 D Magazine looks like, well, a little bit of it can be found here.