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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was reading the memoir of a Battle of Britain pilot published posthumously in 1943 when he used the word "ginormous" (the word was even in the included glossary, explained as a combination of gigantic and enormous). It was very surprising as I'd always assumed that word was Valley Girl speak that dated to the 1980s at the earliest.