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Help with neologism

18th July 2003 by Simon

These days there seems to be an explosion of newly manufactured word, usually by bonding two words together or twisting current words - that I now know as neologism.

The Word Spy is a useful tool for helping you keep up with them. It not only gives an definition and an example citation but attempts to identify its earliest citation.

My favourite of today is ignoranus, which it isn’t surprising to see was first used by Victor Lewis-Smith.

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One Response to “Help with neologism”

  1. on 18 Jul 2003 at 1:11 pm   Real Radix

    Interesting site. I find it fantastic how descriptive a single word can be.

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