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Not to be confused with [[Personal Dictionary]], which is pretending existing words mean something else.

 

== Comic Books ==

** Acording to the Oxford English Dictionary he also coined "positronic" as an analogue to "electronic" (as in the "positronic brains" of his robots) and "psychohistory", in the usage of predicting the future through mathmatics and the reactions of human masses. You would have to read his books to understand that last one. ( I am aware it has another use, namly the psychological history of people. He coined it as I have described it, however.)

* A 1530 translation of [[The Bible]] misinterpreted the name "Azazel" as "ez ozel," literally meaning "goat that departs." This eventually changed through [[Memetic Mutation]] to "escape goat," then to the modern "scapegoat." So, the word scapegoat literally originated from a [[Rouge Angles of Satin|Rouge Angle Of Satin]]. Azazel is a combination of two words meaning 'goat' and 'disappear'. The Latin Vulgate translates the Hebrew as capro emissario, or 'emissary goat' or 'scapegoat'. The Greek Septuagint translates the Hebrew as 'the one carrying away (averting) evil.'

** There are of course plenty of other examples from the novel: these are merely the most well-known ones.

** This is also a common synonym for one's avatar or character in various role-playing games.

* The word "ansible" was coined by [[Ursula K Le Guin]], and has since been appropriated by a great deal of science fiction for any device which allows faster-than-light communication, including [[Subspace Ansible|right here on this site]]. (Supposedly it was a corruption of the term "answerable". Also an anagram of "lesbian", though the actual relevance of that tidbit is disputed.)

* Woot. Not as famous as Google, but it has found its way into a number of dictionaries. WOOT [[Backronym|purportedly stands for]] We Own the Other Team.

** Alternatively, it's a portmanteau of "Wow, loot!"

* Much like the "flange of baboons" example above, RPGMP3 is attempting to popularize "shower" as the collective term for a group of bastards.

** Perhaps after this exchange in an episode of ''[[Father Ted]]''?