Wang created the word processor but was not able to survive.
The Danville, Ky., native created the word in a poem in the early 1990s.
And Ms. James is certainly no Marquis de Sade, the 18th-century French aristocrat whose fictional fantasies about sexual abuse, torture and murder created the word "sadism".
And James is certainly no Marquis de Sade, the 18th-century French aristocrat whose fictional fantasies about sexual abuse, torture and murder created the word "sadism".
In the early part of my work, I created the word "climigration" to describe the population displacement that was happening in Alaska.
As his typewritten letter to Mr. Safire reflects, he had created the word by adding the suffix "ism" to an existing word and then spent years cajoling others to pick up on it, so he could take credit for creating the longest word in the dictionary.
The draft convention on genocide is mostly the work of Professor Raphael Lemkin, of Yale, who created the word from the Greek Genos (race) and from the Latin occidere (to kill).
When Sir Thomas More created the word "utopia" from Greek words meaning "nowhere" to name the paradise envisioned in his 1516 book, he captured not just its ideals but its elusiveness.
We believe the focus should be on the words that make up the story, not the words about those words, or the person who created the words, or the publisher who created that person.
Benito Mussolini created the word "fascism".
In another early post, he explained how he created the word: "Spoo is Oops spelled backward".
