Ways through the language

Neologisms

Probable coinages with working definitions, sources and attested lines.

Distinctive Phraseology

Aphorisms, verbal formulae, marked constructions and phrase-machines that remain phrases.

Lexical Mutations & Productive Errors

Respellings, mishearings, damaged forms and deliberate wrongness preserved because the failure does work.

Unsettled Words

Hundreds of word-like forms that look made, bent or suspicious but have not earned dictionary status.

The Hyphen Engine

Clause-compression and temporary morphology. Structurally important, explicitly not counted as neologisms.

Rare & Transplanted Lexicon

Existing archaic, specialist, foreign and subcultural vocabulary kept separate from invention.

Machine-Coined Words

Words generated by a machine inside a 2024 work, kept separate from the JQD coinage count.

Unsettled Phrases

The larger unsorted pile behind Distinctive Phraseology.

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