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A neologism is a newly coined word or phrase that has not yet been accepted into mainstream language.
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Sets, setts and settes
In a math paper, there is no need to appeal to the OED for justification of new notation — people invent new words for math relatively often. For example, the word homotopy was invented by the mathema …
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What's a better word to use instead of "nicheification"?
If you spell it nichification, you do find it in some dictionaries. The author may have been relying on spell checkers, and I suspect even the correct version wasn't on his spell checker.
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Cheersing vs cheering
Looking in Google books, "cheersing" does not mean the same as "cheering". It's the act of raising a glass (or clinking a glass with somebody else) and saying "cheers".
In at least two of the roughl …
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Should it be an "unlike" or "dislike" button on Facebook?
Unlike and dislike are both existing words in English, and neither of them has the correct meaning. You could call it delike. The prefix de- also means undo (for example decontaminate), although in as …
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What’s the English for “democrature”, a dictatorship pretending to be a democracy through fr...
The term Potemkin democracy has been used in English for governments that would be called democratures in French.
The English phrase Potemkin democracy means a system of government which is designed t …
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