Tuesday, June 3, 2003 [Tweets]

Fringebaiting

I’m blanking on the proper term for deliberately coined words like this, but in any case, I like it. And it should prove useful beyond left-right politics.

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Is *sniglet* the term you're looking for? That was the name that came from the series of book full of "words that aren't found in the dictionary, but should be."

The word is neologism, which I was entertained to discover is a reasonably old word itself. The OED's first citation is from 1800.

To me, sniglets are more for word play than actual use.

Neologism is it. Thanks, Nat!

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