Apparently the proverb "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" was invented on a bathroom wall
in Australia in 1970. Which goes to show: any medium will do if it's the right sentiment.
I am still waiting for my neologism "eddress" (for email address) to catch on...
UPDATE: Which I see someone else claims to have invented in 1995. Anyway, it's a good word.
RE-UPDATE: Which I see someone else used in 1991. And Esther Dyson is using it now, so it should catch on. I may possibly have been the first to use it in a book, though -- someone's cited my usage in Crafty Screenwriting
I dunno 'bout "eddress." It's not shorter than "address," it looks like a typo, and it sounds like you have a speech defect. People tend to say, "What's your email?" Shorter than "edress," same number of syllables, and hard to misunderstand.
Hey, I coined "scribosphere". :) I know, not such an out there neologism, but Google says it didn't exist before I used it in a post over at The Thinking Writer.
PS: Why use the captcha if you're also requiring logins? Just curious.
Because the spambots can get around logins. I turned it off for a moment there and immediately had spam.
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