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Written by Shelley Bueche   
2005-05-31

Are You Calling Me a Vocabularian?  Read on …

Editors at Merriam-Webster dictionary, asked visitors to their web site to submit words that are not found in the dictionary.  The top words, submitted during a two-week period, include the following made-up words:

Ginormous—Bigger than enormous

Confuzzled—Confused and puzzled, at the same time

Lingweenie—A person who makes up new words

Cognitive Displaysia—The feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you’re on the highway.

Wait, isn’t cognitive displaysia a real word?

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