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Listening to a 1956 episode of Johnny Dollar, he comments "A scoop? I haven't heard that word in years." At that point the word use was only ~70y old

Posted by Max Feb 4 '24, 16:29

in the context of news publishing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_(news)#Word_origin

The word scoop is of American origin, first documented in 1874.[2] As a verb, meaning to beat someone in reporting first, it is first recorded in 1884.

https://youtu.be/eo3wSMogydY?t=1110 (youtu.be)

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Listening to a 1956 episode of Johnny Dollar, he comments "A scoop? I haven't heard that word in years." At that point the word use was only ~70y old

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