Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·Contemporary (2000–) ·2004
Podcast
iPod broadcast
- Meaning
- A digital audio series distributed as downloadable files.
- Source words
- iPod + broadcast
- Coined by
- Ben Hammersley
- Year
- 2004
Background
Coined in a *Guardian* article surveying the new wave of downloadable radio. The iPod reference is now obsolete, but the word has outlived the device.
Contemporary (2000–)
Faster coinage, faster canonisation. Brexit and podcast both reached the OED within a decade of first use — historically rapid. Social media has made visibility, not invention, the rate-limiting step.
Two words, one coinage.
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