Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:47:18 -0500

From: "Albert E. Krahn" krahna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MILWAUKEE.TEC.WI.US

Subject: New words from Sniglets, yes



Vicki Rosenzweig said:



At least some of those "new words" are from a humor book called

"Sniglets," which was published sometime in the 1980s. (I know

"carperpetuation" and "lactomangulation" are from there.) I don't

think any of them have caught on in the sense of being used in

actual writing or conversation that is not about them.

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Vicki is correct.



Also, "disconfect" was from that source.



One more that the forwarder left out was "expresshole," the name for people

who try to sneak through the express lane in supermarkets with more than

3,6,8,10 items -- whatever.





akra



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