August 20, 2002, 08:20
<wordnerd>Seen any good coinages lately? ("frigerati")
Our USn's will well know Ann Landers, who for over forty years (until her death last June) had a widely syndicated advice-column in the daily newspapers. Her daughter now sometimes appears her place, and in today's column coined a nice new word. The relevant part:
quote:
Dear Prudence: I am in the fledgling stage of a promising relationship. Both of us are divorced and in our 40s. The problem is that I recently learned my new flame believes physical relationships must be reserved for marriage. what is the Christian basis for prohibiting all forms of sexuality outside of marriage? I just don't see it. -- Turning Blue
Dear Turn: ... your lady friend's wish to put principle before pleasure is admirable, but she should be careful about using the Bible as a guidebook for sexuality. There's a possibility that this woman is one of the frigerati and is hiding behind the Good Book.
As best I can tell this is a brand new coinage (akin to
glitterati), and I like it!

Hope it sticks!
Seen any good coinages lately? Perhaps we can collect them here as we spot them from time to time.
August 21, 2002, 07:39
KallehWell, wordnerd, first of all welcome to our interesting site.
I am not sure that this counts. However, I find the coinage of "to Google", or the verb form of Google, quite common these days. Some people actually use the term for other types of search engines. So--I am going to go google up some new words now.....!
