For some future OED

Mark Peters at Wordlustitude is asking for votes for the Nonce Word of the Year, and frankly, I think I’ve seen better terminology invented this year than the nominees, but I still urge you to go and vote for one of them.

Better nonce words, as seen on that very site just in the past few months:

That said, for reasons related mostly to euphony, I’m voting for “mooseploitation.”

(Disclosure: Yours truly once got a nonce word listed in Wordlustitude, using this post as citation.)

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  1. Kay Dennison »

    16 December 2008 · 11:32 am

    hmmmm

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