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Salt Lake City Weekly Copy Editor Wins Word-Creation Contest

By AAN Staff
february 19, 2008  11:14 am
Salt Lake City Weekly Copy Editor Wins Word-Creation Contest
Brandon Burt coined the winning term "describification" for Addictionary's "Writer's Block" contest, which asked folks to create new words pertaining to the recently ended Writers Guild of America strike. Describification, a noun, is defined as "the removal of creative writers from the entertainment industry's talent pool, creating a marketplace void and subsequent explosion of brainless reality programming." Addictionary is "an online open dictionary for words that don't exist in the English language, but perhaps should."
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