Every so often, we make up words that aren’t words, but should be words. Some of you may remember sniglets: words Rich Hall made up to describe things for which there were no words, like Snackmosphere: the pocket of air found inside snack and/or potato chip bags. Douglas Adams, of Hitchhiker’s Guide fame, also came up with a book of them called, The Meaning of Liff. This featured words like Shoeburyness: “The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat that is still warm from somebody else’s bottom.” I thought of these because of a recent slip up when I…

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