You may have heard the joke about the English teac... ...student responds, “Yeah, right.” That neologism wasn’t so hard to understand, because paren...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/09/When-No-Means-Yes/The Interweb isn't all lolcats and fail memes, in fact it has given us a few new and very interesting words. Tom Chatfield wrote about them in his new book Netymology: 2. Hasht...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/19/Words-that-the-Internet-Gave-Us/Every December, Sweden's Language Council issues a list of new words. The year 2012 brought the word "ogooglebar," which means "ungoogleable." Google objected, noting that its name...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/27/Google-vs-Sweden-Over-Ogooglebar/Tolkien, in addition to establishing the genre of modern fantasy (I've just had a lengthy discussion with my English major wife about the legitimacy of this attribution), also created the word "dwarves" as a plural form...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/13/j-r-r-tolkien-invented-the-pluralization-dwarves/In 2001, the Homer Simpson expression "Doh!" was entered into The Oxford English Dictionary. Jeff Wysaski of guyism proposes that ten invented words from The Simpsons should be likewise formally incorporated into the En...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/09/10-fake-simpsons-words-that-belong-in-the-dictionary/In his monthly neologism challenges before he retired in 2004, Washington... ...Nick Walker, photo by Luna Park)More Bob Levey's Neologism Competition at Fun With Words: Link
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