{"id":9996,"date":"2012-11-13T13:27:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T12:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9996"},"modified":"2012-11-13T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T14:44:25","slug":"word-of-the-day-neologism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9996","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: neologism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A clever friend of mine used this word in an e-mail to me recently and I thought that I should give it some exposure, so that you can slip in into your next conversation!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neologism\">Wikipedia page <\/a>defines the word as meaning <em>&#8220;a newly coined term, word, or phrase, that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream language&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia offers quite a selection of examples. But I&#8217;m not sure when a neologism ceases to be one and becomes mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidently today the &#8220;Oxford English Dictionary&#8221; offers some of the most recent neologisms led by &#8216;omnishambles&#8217; &#8211; see story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-20309441\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clever friend of mine used this word in an e-mail to me recently and I thought that I should give it some exposure, so that you can slip in into your next conversation! The Wikipedia page defines the word as meaning &#8220;a newly coined term, word, or phrase, that may be in the process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9996"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10007,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9996\/revisions\/10007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}