Fwd: New Word

[Victoria Neufeldt]

Also, what's a word?

Victoria

On Sunday, Feb 29, 2004, 9:01 AM, David Barnhart wrote:

> The notion of "one new word per day" from American English is, in my
> humble opinion, a rather interesting if nebulous notion,
> especially in an
> election year.  First of all, what's "new."  Secondly, what
> constitutes
> "adding"?  How many times must it be used and over what
> period of time
> before a neologism is "established"?  I believe Robert
> Burchfield once
> opined that there were 800 new words per year.  I am confident that
> "one-a-day" and 800 (or about two per day) are very conservative
> guesstimates, when one takes into consideration all the
> technical fields
> from boating to astrophysics.
>
> Regards,
> David Barnhart
>


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