We have our TEd-dy award for best pun, but no award for best coinage.
We in Chicago have the Nabob of Neologism (Wizard of Word-Making, Connoisseur of Coinage). Our Mayor, Hizzoner Richard M. Daley, coins words that befuddle the fourth estate. From today's newspaper:
Daley was asked about the increased scrutiny he would face if his brother Bill had continued [Bill's] campaign for governor. "Scrutiny? What else do you want? Do you want to take my shorts?" Mayor Daley said. "Go scrutinize yourself!" Daley said. "I get scrootened [sic] every day, don't worry, from each and every one of you. It doesn't bother me.
In the tradition of the TEd-dy, we name an award after its finest exemplar. I therefore propose that the award for Best Coinage be christened the AWADaley, in Hizzoner.
Ah, but YART isn't a word; it's an acronym. I can only think of two coined words at the moment, though I know I've seen others here: Anu's now-officially real word, linguaphile, and my own: sneakified.
Forgive me, musick, but I would be remiss if I didn't nominate this...one of the most famously dropped malapropisms in board history...looser! And I guess I'm a real looser for bringing this up! dignifying this as a malapropism, Keven, just in case somebody thinks this was merely a misspelling! ahem!
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dignifying this as a malapropism, Keven, just in case somebody thinks this was merely a misspelling! ahem!
