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Article: For Kathleen, Winning the Neologism Contest Was a Romp in the Park el 639
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- The Washington Post
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- January 5, 1996
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If I run along the Mall, it's because I'm trying to catch the
bus. But Kathleen Long runs about three miles every weekday during
her lunch hour, from the Capitol to the Washington Monument and
back, for the sheer aerobic value of it.
Now there's neologistic value to it, too. Early in December,
as she pounded along, Kathleen conjured up some entries for our
monthly think-up-a-word contest. One of them was a winner.
This was the December challenge that Kathleen and about 3,000
fellow wordsmiths faced:
It's a slow moment at work, so you spend it the way any
self-respecting modern office inmate would: by playing a computer
game or surfing the Web. Suddenly, the boss walks ...