181. A Few More Words: Doomscrolling

Send us Fan MailI talk about the word doomscrolling and make some searches in dictionaries, in a linguistics corpus, and in Google advanced search to try to get an idea of when it first started being used. I end with a brief etymology of the very old word, doom itself.Merriam-Webster: Words We’re Watching“On ‘Doomsurfing’ and ‘Doomscrolling’” https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/doomsurfing-doomscrolling-words-were-watchingOED https://www.oed.com/NOW Corpus (News on the Web) https://www.english-corpora.org/now/The Decibel “The Problems with the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article-the-problems-with-the-first-time-home-buyers-incentive/