A neologism is a newly coined word or phrase, and Matthew Crowley writes that lexicographer Erin McKean, a former Oxford University Press editor-in-chief, has started a web site to keep track of them: ”People often come up to me and say, ‘I went to look up this word and it wasn’t in the dictionary,’” McKean says. ”And often that breaks my heart, because the word that they’re interested in is a perfectly good word, a perfectly cromulent word, a great word oftentimes.”
October 13, 2015