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* On an episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Marshall says he's been using made up words to avoid lying to Lily. "Are you going to quit and work for the NRDC?" "Absatively!"
* In the Escape Slide Parachute episode of ''[[Myth Busters]]'', the word "criminy" (uttered by Adam) gets this treatment by the narrator, who assumes that Adam just made the word up. ("[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/criminy Criminy]" ''is'' an actual word, if rather old.)
** The narrator would have known this if he had watched a single episode of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', where Helga said this word so frequently as to really make it [[Catch Phrase|her own]].
* In ''[[Hustle]]'', Mickey and Emma have a long debate over whether 'stickability' is a word. Mickey insists that if it isn't, then it should be.
* Fans of [[Star Trek]] have created a [http://www.tos.net/empires/romulan/romdict.html dictionary] of ''perfectly romulan words.''
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== Webcomics ==
* This is part of Marcus' schtick in ''[[
* [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/12/10 This] ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' has two examples, one of which is from [[Real Life]].
** They also introduce us to the much maligned [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/11/10/ chuwero] race.
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