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.

i nominate tsuwm, for the coining of the delightfully illustrious "YART".

http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=4097


tsuwm
(addict)
Wed Aug 30 15:22:50 2000
Re: British vs American

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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!!}