The Boomers invented it—check out the usage of the term generation gap during the course of the 20th century. The rupture happened when I was still a child, so I inherited it along with most of the other things older Boomers gave to America.
Every modern American dictionary that you've consulted owes something to the Third —even if that something is that the dictionary you're consulting is not the Third.
3mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
