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Wiktionary has a usage example from 1903, clearly before modern computers but not too ancient. > 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Grosset & Dunlap, pag
by shawnz 6y ago
Wiktionary has a usage example from 1903, clearly before modern computers but not too ancient.
> 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Grosset & Dunlap, page 44:
> […] and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.
As an aside there is at least one common word which does seem to have been invented by the software industry: "access" as a verb
- pavlov 6y ago> “... one common word which does seem to have been invented by the software industry: "access" as a verb” Really? That’s surprising because the French and Spanish equivalent verb (accéder / acceder) is common and has multiple meanings such as “reaching a peak”. I would have imagined this word transferred over in the Norman days.
- chrismorgan 6y agohttps://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=access_VERB https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=access_VERB would seem to support the claim.
- pavlov 6y agoWow, interesting. Maybe it’s because “to accede” is also an English verb but acquired a different meaning from the Latin root. Acceding to a computer system doesn’t make sense like it does in French or Spanish, so the noun was turned back into a different verb.
- jiofih 6y agoI believe that sentence should read “or else he would have...” to be grammatically correct.
- kibwen 6y ago> "access" as a verb The comic Calvin & Hobbes corroborates the novelty of this verb in this strip from 1993: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25
- enriquto 6y ago> "access" as a verb But is it pronounced the same way? I stress the first or the second vowel depending on the case.
- losvedir 6y agoThat's interesting, what accent do you have? In American English I've only ever heard them pronounced the same in noun or verb form.
- enriquto 6y agoFor me english is mostly a written language, as I speak it very rarely. I think that I speak with a mix of french and spanish accents, incorrectly stressing the last syllables of many words, and pronouncing different vowels using the same sound.
- x3n0ph3n3 6y agoCheck out the wikipedia page on initial-stress derived nouns. [1] It's quite illuminating! 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun