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Re: Twain coining words?
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"Shapiro, Fred" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:40:35 -0400
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Chances are that, when the new edition of the OED is completed, Twain's
total of coinages, like that of Shakespeare and most other major authors,
will greatly diminish.  It is worth noting that, when Leon Mead asked Twain
about word-coinage in 1902, Twain denied ever doing such a thing.

Fred Shapiro
Editor
Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press)

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