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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Koodo Mobile's newest {{when}} ad campaign centers around made-up words of varying levels of cromulence, such as "Thumbactionist", "Tabrific", "Bigbillification", and other things that sound like they came out of an ad campaign in [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]].
** A few years ago{{when}}, a car ad in the UK was very similar, but exclusively picked two (often opposed) words, and mashed them together- "Sporty" and "Safe" became "Spafe", for instance. [[Top Gear|Richard Hammond]] deemed this to be a load of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|shiny and bright]].
* A recent{{when}} [[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]] themed cell phone commercial describes its internet surfing as "faster-er."
{{quote|"That isn't a real word!"
"It came out of my mouth, didn't it?" }}
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** The word "ass-tastic" is apparently common in their magazine.
* ''[[Look Around You]]'': Spoofs the wealth of jargon found in the world of science by making up a host of new words, including fictitious chemicals ("bumcivilian", "segnomin"), laboratory equipment ("Besselheim plate", "gribbin"), units of measurement ("billigram", "quorums per second") and many more.
* ''[[Not the Nine O'Clock News]]'': Gerald, the Talking Gorilla. Uses term 'Flange' for the collective noun of baboons. This one made it to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080925134635/http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/collective/b/?view=uk Ask Oxford website].
** George Martin coined the same word as a humorous way of describing a recording technique to [[The Beatles]]. The technique in question is that of dubbing a track with a version of itself delayed a few milliseconds, so that different frequencies either cancel or reinforce themselves. This also plays with the brain's mechanism for locating the source of sounds, giving it an interesting psychedelic flavour that the Beatles liked. The effect is still known as "flange".
*** The effect was in use before The Beatles (though can't say for sure it wasn't Martin who named it). In those days was to set up two identical recordings on two different machines and play them in perfect sync. One then touched the outside edge of one of the tape reels to set one of the machines ever so slightly out of synch. As a flange is an older word used to mean the outer edge of something, it is thus an entirely legitimate use of the term. Presumably it was used as rimming sounded too rude even then.
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* The ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'' musical has a number of these being used by corrupt headmistress/press secretary Madame Morrible, including "definish" (as in "definite"...ish), "braverism" and "surreptitially". This [[The Barnum|suits her character]] well.
** Also from [[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]], G(a)linda gives us confusifying. Yep. Confusifying.
* ''[[Our American Cousin]]'' has "sockdologizing", which (judging by [[Audience Reactions]]) was the funniest word in the play when it was performed during the 1860s. Alas, the context that it was used in doesn't provide any context for its meaning, other than that it isn't complimentary.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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