Neology resources needed

[Victoria Neufeldt]

Volume 16 (1995) of _Dictionaries_, the journal of the Dictionary Society of
North America, is largely devoted to neology.  The "Neology Forum" comprises
10 articles on various aspects of neology.  (One of the articles is mine,
and I included the priceless quote from Thomas Hardy, which Bill Chisholm,
who was the journal editor at that time, had told me about.)  John Algeo's
_Fifty Years Among the New Words_, which chronicles the "Among the New
Words" columns in _American Speech_, is also an excellent source of info.
And there must be useful individual articles in other issues of
_Dictionaries_, as well as in _American Speech_ itself.  (I haven't
checked.)

Victoria

Victoria Neufeldt
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Saskatoon, Sask.
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Canada


On Thursday, October 11, 2001 12:22 PM, Paul McFedries wrote:
>
> "Once or twice recently I have looked up a word in the dictionary for fear
> of being again accused of coining, and have found it there right enough --
> only to read on and find that the sole authority is myself in a
> half-forgotten novel."
> --Thomas Hardy
>
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Shapiro" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
>  Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:43 PM
>
> > A fascinating older book is Leon Mead, _Word-Coinage_ (1902).  He did
> > things like ask famous authors about whether they had ever knowingly
> > coined any words.  Most denied it, and said they would never dream of
> > doing such a thing.  I particularly find interesting Mark Twain's saying
> > that he had never coined a word as far as he knew; the historical
> > dictionaries list him as the first user of many hundreds of terms.
>