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  • Everyone has been a word-coiner at some time or other - if not around the kitchen table, then in the garden, bedroom, office, or pub.

    Archive 2008-12-01 DC 2008

  • Everyone has been a word-coiner at some time or other - if not around the kitchen table, then in the garden, bedroom, office, or pub.

    On Kitchen Table Lingo DC 2008

  • From Seaside, down the coast, a local official turns up in basic agreement with our San Francisco word-coiner, but mixes metaphors instead of words.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 1 1976

  • a young man, had a sleepless night because of some girl whom you had scarcely spoken to, and who would not have known who you were if you had been able to master your trepidation and claim acquaintance; and who, in the sequel, changed her identity, and became what the greatest word-coiner of our time called a "speech-friend" of yours, without

    Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

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