I wonder sometimes what would be the oldest extant word based on technology no longer in use. Taping an interview? Dialing someone? https://twitter.com/hels/status/679059633949011970 …
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Oxford English Dictionary. “Privy Stool,” meaning the toilet-chair, dates from late 15th century. About 50 years later you get “go to stool” used in the same way we say “go to the bathroom,” and that eventually leads to the medical use of the term.
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Oh, technology is early 15th century actually — 1410. And then in 1541, “By... diligent serch by their stoole, their nourices shal perceyve what digesteth wel.”
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