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Neologisms For The Modern World

In her new book, That Should Be A Word: A Language Lover’s Guide To Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, And Other Much-Needed Terms For The Modern World, author Lizzie Skurnick has compiled a mini-dictionary that finally puts a word to the activity of doing a Google search to find the closest bathroom: Loogling.

Here are a few other favorites from Lizzie.

She’s got plenty more at her website: theoldhag.com.

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