When asked in 1897 why he didn’t write in Polish, Around the turn into the 20th century it was popular throughout the English-speaking world. According to Google’s usage graph, hogwash has become increasingly popular in the last 50 years. It didn’t get its current meaning of foolish or nonsensical ideas until the late 19th century. I would put my money on hogwash, which originally meant kitchen swill for pigs. Will derp have staying power? It’s dull and sounds like burp, so I doubt it. And don’t forget codswallop, a word that sounds Shakespearean but was coined in 1959. There is also a good old word that means incoherent prose or speech: gibberish, which has been around since 1557. Two nifty 20th-century words are malarkey (1929) and gobbledygook (1944). There are many other synonyms, including mumbo-jumbo, which has been around since the mid-18th century and refers to pretentiously deep or spiritual language.
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