User talk:LunaEatsTuna/letters of the year

Silly! ...or is it?
It'd be possible to extend this list waaay back, as there's some fun to be had in searching thru history to find the year a single letter obtained a new sense. But would doing so match the intent that popular-culture-based Word of the Year lists typically have, or would such entries moreso be retrospective trivia? I mean, unless that's what you want in the list. But then again, such historical entries might quickly outnumber the modern ones, which would be bad if the modern slangy ones are what you're actually interested in.

(Since you already have 🅱️ in the list, maybe playing fast and loose with what exactly a letter is could be fun. Do we allow non-Latin letters, ligatures, letters with diacritics, letterlike symbols?)

Anyways, here's some ideas for historical Letters of the Year. It's your list, so feel free to add none, or any, of them to the page:

-- Vuccala (talk) 23:39, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 1971 - @ - first email sent using the @ symbol
 * 1951 - X - X-rating created by British Board of Film Classification
 * 1948 - Å - symbol for angstrom adopted by IUPAP
 * 1944 - D - for D-Day
 * 1920 - T - first use of T-shirt, which would later shorten to just tee
 * 1909 - © - circled-c symbol created in the United States Copyright Act of 1909
 * 1868 - V - Volt created as an electrical unit
 * 1867 - Ω - chosen by William Henry Preece as Greek letter for electrical resistance
 * 1827 - ə - schwa letter invented by Johann Andreas Schmeller
 * 1742 - C - Celsius scale invented
 * 1724 - F - Fahrenheit scale invented
 * 1021 - X - first known use to abbreviate Christ (or should this be for 33AD instead, using a Greek letter Chi Χ?)
 * 1000 - M - Roman numeral representing the year 1000
 * 500 - D - Roman numeral representing the year 500
 * 312 - ☧ - Christogram seen by Emperor Constantine I


 * This makes me wonder what the World Letter of the Year Federation would stipulate. We could do the modern-ish ones first than fill in any blanks with historical ones.. I feel like a lot of those letters you suggest are relevant enough anyways, like the Christogram, the D for D-Day (which was super iconic and known by the name D-Day the same year it happened), etc. Maybe the X can be moved around to the 1960s during the Golden Age of Pornography, the @ to the 1980s when the Internet was further developing into the mainstream, etc. Thanks for your interest BTW! LunaEatsTuna (talk) 21:40, 10 June 2024 (UTC)