Lots of posts lately about new words--
John McIntyre of the Baltimore Sun, who references:
Erin McKean (whose Dictionary Evangelist blog has few updates, but her Dress a Day is loads of fun)
and Stuart Froman, whose "That's Write" blog is new to me.
Who all got me to thinking of the words that have entered my own personal language. Usually from kids, to be exact.
Here's the one that will outlast them all, I think:
underbrella--from my little sister, who is now 40 years old.
My daughter once said, "I got sidestracted"--which I absolutely love.
And when she was REALLY little, she made up two words. The first one I loved but lost; the second one I wrote down, and we used it for several years: fenifidy (feh-NIF-ah-dee)--lots of things to do.
What are your favorite neologisms?
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Not quite the same, but when I was a kid I had the habit of inserting additional syllables into words: 'ashatray' instead of 'ashtray', for example (yes, my parents were smokers...).
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