{"id":11686,"date":"2015-09-15T10:39:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T09:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11686"},"modified":"2024-09-03T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T11:53:00","slug":"sniglets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11686","title":{"rendered":"Sniglets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/sniglet.gif\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Sniglet - any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I learned an interesting new word from the radio yesterday &#8211; <strong>sniglet<\/strong> &#8211; which is defined as &#8220;any word that doesn&#8217;t appear in the dictionary, but should&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>It was apparently popularized by the comedian\/actor Rich Hall while he was working on <em>Not Necessarily the News<\/em>, an HBO comedy series from the 1980s, who has also published a number of collections of sniglets [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sniglet\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aquadextrous<\/strong>: possessing the ability to turn the bathtub tap \/ faucet with the toes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blamestorming<\/strong>: sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Egosurf<\/strong>: to search for yourself on Google or another search engine<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ohnosecond<\/strong>: that very short moment in time during which you realize that you have pressed the wrong key and deleted hours, days, or weeks of work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Percussive maintenance<\/strong>: the fine art of whacking the crap of of an electronic device to get it to work again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treeware<\/strong>: documents made out of paper, as opposed to electronic documents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some collections of sniglets:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sniglet\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sniglet<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.about.com\/od\/rs\/g\/Sniglet-term.htm\">http:\/\/grammar.about.com\/od\/rs\/g\/Sniglet-term.htm<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/whatis\/definition\/Sniglet-Words-that-should-be-in-the-dictionary-but-arent\">https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/whatis\/definition\/Sniglet-Words-that-should-be-in-the-dictionary-but-arent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned an interesting new word from the radio yesterday &#8211; sniglet &#8211; which is defined as &#8220;any word that doesn&#8217;t appear in the dictionary, but should&#8221;. It was apparently popularized by the comedian\/actor Rich Hall while he was working on Not Necessarily the News, an HBO comedy series from the 1980s, who has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23646,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions\/23646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}