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Opinion: Refudiate This: Sarah Gets Shakespeare

(July 19) -- My friend and grad school adviser Stanley Fish sent shock waves through the blogosphere when he praised Sarah Palin's book. "I wouldn't count myself a fan in the sense of being a supporter," he wrote in a review, still "I found it compelling and very well done." Given the howls of objections that Fish...

Opinion: Language Evolves, There's No Refudiating That

(July 19) -- According to Internet sources, William Shakespeare made up more than 3,000 words that we still use every single day, including elbow, bump, dawn and cater. Who knows what we would have screamed out back in 1515 when we hit that pointy hinge joint between forearm and upper arm. "Blast! I hit my pointy hinge...

Where Do New Words Come From?

(May 21) -- We use dozens of new words every year, but we rarely think of their origins. Each has its own unique use, but when did it suddenly appear in our vocabulary? Sol Steinmetz knows. He's a lexicographer who broke down the last 110 years of new words, and when they emerged into common use, in his new book, "There's...

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A neologism (; ) is a newly coined term, word, or phrase, that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream language.

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