#nonce words

[vikinglanguage]

i love my phonetics and phonology professor

[haxyr3]

Russian Nonce Word Dictionary

Very interesting project created and run by a young Russian linguist: Nonce Word Dictionary. Russians love making up words, and this dictionary is designed to register freshly baked occasionalisms before they either disappear or become regular words.

Why is it intersting for me? For many reasons, but mostly because new words reflect social changes faster than any sociologists, and, seocnd, because when collected in one place, these words also show the direction of deep water currences and changes in the language.

[wordbirds]

WARANTINE

(N.) 'wor-ren-teen  A nonce expression, describing the furore over whether to quarantine doctors returning from Ebola hot zones after volunteering. (Current in fall  2014) Usage: After a doctor returning from Guinea came down with Ebola, New Yorkers vehemently disagreed on whether he should have been quarantined once he got back, producing a warantine in the press.

[2nddaisybrainblog]

Even More New Words (that you didn't know you needed)

Enormouse: a giant mouse

Carpet: a dog that likes to ride in a car

Crumpet: a dog who eats crumbs off the floor

Hopen: to open with hope

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For complete list, click here.

[lopotrestivedere]

Nonce Words- S.Heaney

Did your life take an unexpected turn recently? Here you have a poem where I've found a good answer!

The road taken to bypass Cavan took me west, (a sign mistaken) so at Derrylin I turned east.

Sun on ice, white floss on reed and bush, the bridge cast in an advent silence I drove across,

then pulled in, parked and sat breathing mist on the windscreen. Requiescat . . . I got out

well happed up, stood at the frozen shore gazing at rimed horizon, my first stop like this in years.

And blessed myself in the name of the nonce and happenstance, the Who knows and What nexts and So be its.

- Seamus Heaney