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Coinageness

I just coined a new word - at least Google comes up with no hits for it and asks me if I meant dysmemorrh[o]ea, which I didn’t. My new word is dysmemorial, which I claim to be because my memory doesn’t work at all well. The OED Online (2nd edition) doesn’t have it in; the nearest word it comes up with is dysmenorrhagia, which precedes the entry for dysmemorrhoea and means the same thing. Do I get a prize?

Mind, the OED also says that the prefix dys- is usually followed by a word of Greek origin, to stay in keeping with the origin of the prefix, so I will now recoin my word as dysmnemonic and search for that on Google. No, it asks did I mean usemnemonic, a computer function name by the looks of it.

The last time I thought I’d coined a new word, I discovered it already existed (by doing a Google search, of course). That word was dysnumeric, which I also claim to be.

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One Response to “Coinageness”

  1. george Says:
    Thursday 2nd June, 2005 @ 11.40pm BST Europe/London

    Try with ‘amnemonic’.
    Hopefully, you are not!
    :)
    Also, there is a word ‘dysmnesia’.
    Given that the adjective ‘amnesiac’ exists,you could say ‘dysmnesiac’(?). Maybe.
    :)

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