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40 Words That Didn’t Exist 40 Years Ago

Google

Stop and think for a moment: have you gone one day without Googling something? Chances are, you haven’t. And it’s highly likely that you use the term “Google it” on a regular basis. Google became an official word in 2006, but it was the American Dialect Society’s most useful word of 2002.

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Source: seomark.co.uk

Funnily enough, it wasn’t until “Help,” an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, that the verb Google hit TV screens. If you don’t believe it, you can Google it.

The next word is what you say when you stay local rather than fly away for the holidays.