• Recreation: Humor: Wordplay  (246)

• Lexicopoeia - Provides a definition, and examples created by Professor Mikhail Epstein.
• The Meaning of Liff - Alphabetical list of placenames and new meanings. Transcript of the book by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.
• Neologism Competition - A long-running monthly competition for readers, by Bob Levey of "The Washington Post". Includes links to past results.
• Neologisms - Features the results of one round of "The Washington Post's Style Invitational", where readers are asked to alter a dictionary word by one letter, and then supply a new definition.
• New Words In English - An alphabetical collection created by students at Rice University in Texas.
• Sniglets - An alphabetical and phonetic dictionary of made-up words.
• What the Hell is Liff? - Provides new definitions for names of real towns and cities, with a search feature and a forum. Users are invited to submit their own items for inclusion.
• Wiktionary: List of Protologisms - A collection of newly invented, but not widely accepted words or phrases, arranged by topic.
• Word Spy: Neologisms - A personal collection of newly-coined words and phrases.
  
  
• New words reflect changing culture. - ABC News Opinion article discusses whether some of the latest word creations enhance or detract from the language. (January 17, 2007)
• Cyber-Neologoliferation - Article by James Gleick in "The New York Times" explains how new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. (November 5, 2006)

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