April 25, 2018

The following words did not exist until I made them up. You’re welcome!
- Flambertoast (n): Toast spread generously with flamberjam
- Flamberjam (n): A sweet spread made of crushed flamberberries
- Flamberberry (n): The fruit of the flamberbush
- Flamberbush (n): The deciduous plant that produces the edible, and slightly radioactive, flamberberry
OK, one thing kind of led to another there. Breaking free of that loop. Here are some more practical new words:
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July 23, 2017

Resently, the SEE key on my MakBook stopped working. This is annoying, but it kould have been worse. As you kan see, a ‘k’ or an ‘s’ is easily substituted, and for more formal kommuniation, I have taken to kopying and pasting the letter SEE. This takes up a bit of time, sine I kan’t just hit Kommand-SEE to kopy.
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July 31, 2015
Catchy Slogans Seemingly Devoid of Meaning:
Ignore the ignorant!
Expunge the sponges!
Down With Gravity!
Freedomination!
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December 24, 2014
New words, better than the tired, old words you’ve grown used to:
- Ashamorse [ə-ˈshām-hȯrs] The state of being ashamed and having remorse. This word came from my teenage daughter. A related version: shamorse.
- Arborcide [är-bər-sīd] The murder of trees (“We’re not into arborcide – we have an artificial Christmas tree.”)
- Pizzarito [pēt-sə-rē-tō] Make a pizza on a torilla, roll it up & you have a pizzarito.
- Afraud [a-frȯd] African email scams
- Christmasochist [kris-mə-sə-kist] Someone who takes on way too much at Christmas
- Kwanzaaholic* [kwän-zə-hȯ-lik] Someone who’s a bit over the top with Kwanzaa
- Vaccumulate [va-kyüm-ə-lāt] To accumulate vacuums
- Tesslatte [tes-lä-tā] My drink of choice when I am driving my (future) Tessla
- Placebotox [plə-ˈsē-bō-täk] A saline injection substituting for an actual botox treatment
- Extravagansett* [ik-ˌstra-və-ˈgan-zət] Any celebration in Narragansett, Rhode Island
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*Courtesy Auntie Linda
To try out some older new words, click the daisy:

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July 26, 2014
Here are some recent thinks:
- A name for a company that cleans up mildew: Mildon’t
- I just saw “free range eggs” on the menu of this diner. Why would anyone put eggs in cages in the first place?
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May 27, 2014
Slight misspellings can create a new world of words. It’s like the genetic mutations that make evolution possible. So, here’s to the evolution of the language:
- Independance: A solo dance
- Burgerlar: A hamburger thief
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March 6, 2014

Twitterror: A mistake on Twitter, like a post over 140 characters that gets cut off mid-sentence. (I twitterred, and now I look like an idiotwit.)
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February 25, 2014

OK, we all know about the regular ‘ventions: intervention, convention, invention…. But what about the less conventional ‘ventions? Allow me to introduce some worthy, new ‘ventions for your consideration:
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January 26, 2014

Iron is both an essential nutrient and a health hazard linked to heart disease and cancer. But they should have known about this contradiction – after all, iron forms the basis of the word ironic.
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October 15, 2013

___________/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\___________
Neologism:
1. a newly coined word, or a phrase or familiar word used in a new sense
___________/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\___________
Entertrainment:
- Entertainment that also teaches
- Entertainment on a train
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