11/5/2022 0 Comments Skedaddle press![]() ![]() The number of vocabulary terms that Metcalf includes from each generation varies. The Homeland Generation, 2005–present (11 years) The Millennial Generation, 1982–2004 (22 years) The Thirteenth Generation, 1961–1981 (20 years) The Missionary Generation, 1860–1882 (22 years) The Progressive Generation, 1843–1859 (16 years) The Transcendental Generation, 1792–1821 (29 years) The Compromise Generation, 1767–1791 (24 years) The Republican Generation, 1742–1766 (24 years) The generations he has selected from Strauss and Howe are: The deepest divisions in our society, it is argued, are not matters of gender or race or religion or region, but of membership in different generations, a matter of destiny depending simply on when each of us was born. Generations generate interest these days. Of those, Metcalf focuses on a selection of thirteen, and notes on the concept of a generation: Strauss and Howe (1991, 20) identify a generation as “a phase of life defined in terms of central social roles” they name eighteen such generations. These generations provide the organizational structure for a discussion of more than 120 words, including unalienable, gerrymander, pioneer, O.K., deadline, dude, hot dog, jazz, swell, babysitter, e, teenybopper, awesome, nerd, whatever, LOL, and homeland.įor the matrix of generations, Metcalf has relied upon William Strauss and Neil Howe’s treatment of generations in their books Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069 and The Fourth Turning. Bush.įrom Skedaddle to Selfie groups together the linguistic terms that characterize each of thirteen generations from the Republican Generation (those born between 17) up to the Homeland Generation (those born beginning in 2005). His wide-ranging interest in English in America is underscored by Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Metcalf has also written about the history of a single word in OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word. From Iceland came geyser from Norway, berserk and from what is now the Czech Republic, robot, etc.-demonstrating the sponge-like readiness of English to absorb from where ever whatever it needs. In 1999, Metcalf published The World in So Many Words. That book sought to progress year by year, identifying each year with a term that arose or in some cases blossomed then. The first was America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America. This book is the latest by Allan Metcalf on the place of words in the English language. ![]()
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