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{{quote|'''Mrs. Krabappel''': [[Lampshade Hanging|"Embiggens"? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield.]]
'''Ms. Hoover''': I don't know why. It's a [[Trope Namer|perfectly cromulent word]].|'''''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'''''}}
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[[Trope Namers|Named]] for the above-quoted exchange from an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''. (Incidentally, the word ''embiggen'' was later used in a completely cromulent paper on string theory. It's on page 31 [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0610/0610212v2.pdf here]).
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Koodo Mobile's newest 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]].
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