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	Neologisms. Fowler, H. W. 1908. The King's English
		And indeed, if no new words were to appear, it would be a sign that the language was moribund; but it is well that each new word that does appear should be severely scrutinized.
		The writer is not seriously putting forward his word as one that is for the future to have an independent existence; he merely has a fancy to it for this once.
		A use has not yet been found for the word in home politics, as far as we have observed; but the fact that intellect in any country is recognized as a definite political factor is noteworthy; and we should hail intellectuals as a good omen for the progress of the world.
	www.bartleby.com /116/103.html (1543 words)

	NONCE - Definition
		See {For}, {Once}, and {The}.] The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce.
		And that he calls for drink, I 'll have prepared him A chalice for the nonce.
		{Nonce word}, ``a word apparently employed only for the nonce''.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/nonce (70 words)

	Urban Dictionary: nonce
		nonce paedophile twat wanker paedo pervert chav homo kiddy diddler nonse pedo queer fluff-sniffer gary glitter gay heemasex idiot kiddy fiddler nonsense papercutter pedophile peedo ponce poof spaz tosser
		Although this officially means paedophile, this word is often used to mean stupid.
		Also used occasionally as a general insult, regardless of the tendencies of the person to whom the word is applied.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=nonce (443 words)

	Words About Words - David Crystal: A nonce word (from the 16th-century ...
		A nonce word (from the 16th-century phrase for the nonce, meaning "for the once") is a lexeme created for temporary use, to solve an immediate problem of communications.
		It was obvious from the jocularly apologetic way in which the person spoke that she did not consider fluddle to be a "proper" word at all.
		As far as she was concerned, it was simply that there seemed to be no word in the language for what she wanted to say, so she made one up, for the nonce.
	www.wordspy.com /waw/20001206101240.asp (229 words)

	Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY, Letter N
		Sidelight: Sometimes a nonce word gains acceptance in the general language, as gerrymander, which means to manipulate unfairly, such as to arbitrarily rearrange the boundaries of a political district to give one party an unfair advantage.
		This word was coined in 1812, when a voting district was formed with an irregular shape suggesting a resemblance to a salamander during the administration of Elbridge Gerry, then governor of Massachusetts.
		A word thus adopted into standard usage then ceases to be a nonce word.
	www.poeticbyway.com /gl-n.html (402 words)

	Nonce word - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur.
		Quark, for example, was a nonce word appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake until Murray Gell-Mann used it to name a new class of subatomic particle.
		Nonce words frequently arise through the combination of an existing word with a familiar prefix or suffix, in order to meet a particular need (or as a joke).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Nonce_word (257 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Nonce word
		If the need recurs (or the joke is widely enjoyed), nonce words easily enter regular use (initially as neologisms) just because their meaning is obvious.
		Nonce words are often created as part of pop culture and advertising campaigns.
		Contrafibularity was one of several nonce words used by the fictional Edmund Blackadder to confuse the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, whom he despised:
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Nonce_word (329 words)

	Sam Ruby: Nonce
		Nonce is a funny word that plays a serious role in a number of security implementations. Generating a nonce is easy - a random number or the current time or a combination of the two is sufficient.
		That is, concatenate the nonce, creation timestamp, and the password (or shared secret or password equivalent) and pass the digest of the combination.
		Nonce words are problematic for translators since it's hard to know exactly what the word means -- you can't compare against other contexts, because there aren't any.
	www.intertwingly.net /blog/1585.html (2917 words)

	Nonce-word Pragmatics - Louis Cabri
		The neologism recruits, with every new dictionary addition, for the word as such – which here must be understood as itself having an instrumental function that might not have been perceived by modernist poets who claimed the word-as-such as a poetic liberation from instrumentality.
		Their pragmatics involves how words are used, but they do not follow Wittgenstein’s “language-game” insofar as the latter can be too easily systematized to corroborate conventional linguistics.
		Once added to a dictionary, the word is no longer a neologism (historical derivation aside), and is no different from any other word that the dictionary may house.
	www.monoecious.org /cabri-nonce.html (1306 words)

	The English-to-American Dictionary
		In the US this word is used to refer to the act of reporting someone to the narcotics authorities, which we don't really have in the UK.
		To have a natter is to engage in idle banter, to chatter.
		Using the word as a verb implies active use of said penis and could be be equated to the American slang "bone" or British shag.
	english2american.com /dictionary/n.html (1074 words)

	Put those words to use!
		The problems were a missing word in "clowder singing cats," Judge 3 gave the benefit of the doubt to a missing word, and a poor jargon phrase "puts pay" which didn't involve any words from the list, but did cause the reader to stumble.
		The usage was good for most of the words, and the few that were not exactly correct, were not so far off as to lose the reader.
		Words and definitions were sourced from a several places, including: A.W.A.D. Grandiloquent Dictionary, SKB Dictionary, and, of course, Michael A. Fischer's wwftd dictionary.
	www.ragani.com /words/words01.html (1617 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As we have discussed, a hapax legomenon is a word or phrase found only once in some specified body of language (the entire records of a language, the works of a given author, etc.).
		While a hapax legomenon is any word found only once, a nonce word is not just a word used only once, but one intended to be used only once--one coined for a particular effect and not likely to be repeated.
		The term nonce derives from a metanalysis of Middle English phrase such as for then anes 'for the one purpose'; the n moved over to create "for the nanes," insert your fave vowel shift, etc. The phrase nonce word itself was first used in 1884, during the preparation of the Oxford English Dictionary.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19990122 (411 words)

	World Wide Words: Nonce
		It usually turns up in the fossil phrase “for the nonce”, meaning temporarily.
		But people misunderstood where the break between words came, and turned then anes into the nanes (said, I think, as though it was spelt nanse).
		There’s almost certainly no connection by the way, with the British criminals’ slang use of the word for a sexual offender, whose origin is uncertain, though it may be connected with nancy.
	www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-non1.htm (292 words)

	Archived Weblog Entry - 10/04/2002: "Nonce Words"
		In non-wedding stuff: Nonce Words in the Oxford English Dictionary.
		Not this kind of nonce, a nonce word is a word occurring, invented, or used just for a particular occasion.
		The cryptographic defininition provided fails to describe a very important feature of a nonce: It should be used only once (hence the name), or at the very least, nonces should be repeated very infrequently.
	www.anitarowland.com /gmarchives/00000579.html (100 words)

	A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
		TATTARRATTAT is the longest palindrome in the OED2, which calls it a nonce word.
		The word does not appear in the OED2 and an Internet search in March 2000 failed to find a single use of the word, except for its appearance in lists of palindromes or as the name of the band.
		However, the word is not found in the OED2 and does not appear to exist on the Internet except as the name of the rock band or as an example of a palindrome.
	members.aol.com /gulfhigh2/words5.html (2230 words)

	LearnEnglish Cambridge Global Glossary
		not have a civil word to say about sb
		Many a true word is spoken in jest.
		Look this word up in another dictionary >>Cambridge Learner's DictionaryCambridge Dictionary of American EnglishCambridge International Dictionary of IdiomsCambridge Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs
	dictionary.cambridge.org /learnenglish/results.asp?searchword=word (53 words)

	nonce - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		the present, or immediate, occasion or purpose (usually used in the phrase for the nonce).
		the present occasion; "for the nonce" [syn: time being]
		Perform a new search, or try your search for "nonce" at:
	dictionary.reference.com /search?q=nonce (181 words)

	Wordlustitude
		This blog (recently featured in The Telegraph) is a growing dictionary of ephemeral words--also known as nonce or stunt words.
		All readers are strongly encouraged to use these terms in their blogs, poems, prophesies, and recipes.
		Words grow on trees, but neither words nor trees will keep your friendly neighborhood wordluster in the pink.
	wordlust.blogspot.com (1251 words)

	Messages from the Ether
		A hapax legomenon (ἅπαξ λεγόμενον;) is a word that occurs only once in a corpus (a book, an author's works, a written language, etc.).
		Autoguos (αυτογυος), an ancient Greek word for a sort of plough, is found once (and exclusively) in Hesiod, the precise meaning remaining obscure.
		A nonce word is made up on the spot and probably won't be used again (think "debigulator" from The Simpsons).
	www.scottdstrader.com /blog/ether (2419 words)

	Lojban : Wiki page BPFK Section: Nonce Connectives as of 11 Feb 2005 changed
		Use this thread to discuss the Wiki page BPFK Section: Nonce Connectives as of 11 Feb 2005 changed page.
		Indicates that the next word is a nonce creation or > > is nonstandard in some way.
		And I didn't think I was proposing any changes when I asked those questions the other day.
	www.lojban.org /tiki/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?topics_offset=72&topics_sort_mode=hits_asc&forumId=1&comments_parentId=3917 (402 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online
		The Word of the Day for January 24, 2007 is:
		Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" is chock-full of nonce words, but a few of his coinages, such as "chortle" and "galumph," have become established in our language.
		The editor of that dictionary, James Murray, created the term "nonce-word" as a label for "words apparently employed for the nonce."
	www.merriam-webster.com /cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Jan.24.2007 (102 words)

	Messages from the Ether: Language & Literature Archives
		These words are under the radar of standard English, so their origins and lives are more organic and volatile.
		Fewer words are generally better and dead metaphors reveal a lack of thought.
		The words we learned exclusively from books are the ones we pronounce differently from everyone else.
	www.scottdstrader.com /blog/ether_archives/cat_language_literature.html (9142 words)

	nonce word - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms - HighBeam Research
		nonce word - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms - HighBeam Research
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