Coining Cognates

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Sometimes a novel concept or object calls for a new word. But why not invent new words to begin with and then figure out what they mean? Mathews, who distorted proverbs into perverbs in Selected Declarations of Dependence, also coined pernouncements like those below as he composed literature.

"Spurious word for use"
“Spurious words for use.” Manuscript notes for Tlooth, n.d.

 

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