THE FIRST WORD

metricated
The 19-year-old college student from San Antonio wanted to make a poundcake. But he is a firm believer in the metric system, so baking in Fahrenheit wouldn't do. He "metricated" the oven using "a complicated, nonintuitive sequence of button pressing," he says.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "metricated" dates back to at least 1969, with the first citation appearing in the Journal of the Institute of Navigation