satnav

This is one of those words that I'm reluctant to list because it's such an obvious alteration of well-known words. On the other hand, it's one of the few words I've listed that's actually relatively new, instead of just new to me.

So: "satnav" means "satellite navigation system."

I encountered it in an article in April titled "UK's Queen celebrates 80th birthday," which contains the following sentence:

From the age of the steam train to the era of satnav, she has been on the throne through it all.

One Response to “satnav”

  1. sam

    OED lists first use in 1975. So not *that* new 🙂

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