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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

reminds me of how I used "tweens" as shorthand for "twentysomethings" for like 10 years before the wider internet decided it meant "between child and teenager, i.e. 12-year-olds". there's an old callout post that resurfaces on twitter occasionally (or used to, I haven't checked). good times

I hate to say it, but as a person who was a teenager in the 80s, they called us “tweens” back then, too. (OED has 1946 as the earliest date for the word in that sense.)

I got it from Lord of the Rings, which was published in 1954. I didn't say I invented it or that my usage was ever predominant, but it also wasn't confusing to anyone until 2014 or so, when "tween" meaning "preteen" got widespread online