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My favorite anachronistic word that shows up everywhere is explosion. Now, explosion first shows up in the late 1538 as a learned borrowing from Latin (explodere, modified from plaudere, “to clap”), meaning to jeer an actor off stage with loud noises or clapping - as you can see from the spelling of plaudere, it’s basically a sister of “to applaud.” In the 17th and 18th centuries, its meaning widened to include driving off anyone with loud noise, violence, or wind.
What’s weird to the modern reader is that the notion that its most commonly used meaning, a destructive blast or similar violent outburst, is first recorded only in 1882, and rather technically. From what I’ve read of people’s writings from the WWI era, it starts to become a widely known concept during the Edwardian period, but most English-speakers still preferred to conceptualize explosions as “blasts.”
Read a WWI-era British soldier’s diary, everything is a “tremendous blast.” Fucking “stupendous, terrific blasts.”