Make up new words

Added by TM on 6th August, 2008

Words have to come from somewhere so why not make up your own. We all have our own words for stuff and some of them actually make sense.

Once you have invented your word the next challenge could be to submit the word to a Dictionary http://www.oed.com/readers/

However, this can be quite difficult as you have to provide evidence from a variety of sources of where the word has been used ...

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Added by Ole on 29th March, 2009

I like the idea of making up new words. If you want to get a number 1 google page rank for your name or website, you can try to invent a new and unique term. I saw a website with such a name. It´s called "crayoncrisis".

Added by Maxim on 26th November, 2008

It is good idea! Thanks a lot :-)

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