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Miscellany: Did you coin a word
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.
The floor is open for nominations.
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i nominate tsuwm, for the coining of the delightfully illustrious "YART". http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=4097
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>the structure of this board makes moving
from thread to thread a little awkward
Yet Another Rehashed Topic! (time to coin an acronym: YART)
{but a topic on which we all agreed!!}
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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.
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It would be a fiasco if we forgot unrequordled.
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Sneakified
I dunno....
Sneakified, compactified, objectified - there too over-verbified for my liking. I like fresh sounding coinage.
Entirely useless off-topic info: speaking of coinage, the transportation of the EU's new legal tender across the continent, is now underway.
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I can only think of two coined words at the moment ...
Jackie is too modest to mention her own masterpiece of earlier today:
Stego (to communcate subtly, via steganography)
which I hereby nominate.
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ah, but stego- is a prefix, a combining form meaning "cover," used in the formation of
compound words such as stegosaur.
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ah, but stego- is a prefix
Exactly so: just as the prefix tele-, as in television, was neologized into the word telly.
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You've got me all atwizzle -- once again.
Who is this guy Daley and why is he giving awards and what are they?
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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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