Sunday Rest: borecore. Word Not To Use Today.

Look, being a teenager is quite hard enough without people dismissing your six second video of you painting your nails or pretending to be Paddington Bear as borecore.

After all, it's not as if you're not going to grow out of that sort of thing. I mean, before you can work out what's happened you'll be a sixty-year-old banging on about completely different boring things like word-usage...

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Word Not To Use Today: borecore. This word originally seems to have been associated with Vine, a deceased Social Media platform which allowed people to make home made six second looping videos publicly available.

Sadly, the videos turned out, though short, to be so reliably boring that almost no one watched them.

The word bore meaning to be uninteresting appeared in the 1700s, but at the time no one was quite interested enough to write down who made it up, and so now the origin of the word is a mystery. The word core, meaning the centre of a structure, appeared in the 1300s. No one knows where that word came from, either, but by the 1800s hard core in Britain meant rubble, especially used to describe the foundations of buildings. Whether this led by some route to hardcore meaning extreme, ie too extreme to shift, is unprovable at the moment, but not unlikely.