•August 24, 2022•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

We’ve talked about portmanteaus — those fun combinations of words that create new words — as well as slang — informal ways of speaking, often defined by social and work groups.
But what about neologisms?
I dare say in all the years of writing this column I’ve never used the word.
Reader Gib Van Dyne requested I do so, and because I rarely get around to featuring Gib’s thoughtful and well-considered column ideas I thought this would be as good a time as any. Gib asked me to explore neologisms and coinages.
First, portmanteaus and slang could be considered subsets of neologisms, which are defined as a freshly coined words or phrases. But neologisms can also be new definitions of older words.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.