Word: americaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dickson seems to have found a word for just about anything. Under Fizzlers, terms whose time has not yet come, he lists Americaid, one of 22 names proposed by the Nixon Administration in 1972 as a replacement for welfare. And chirtonsor, a euphemism for barber, which won the votes of 3,000 barbers in 1924. And electrolethe, a more genteel version of electric chair. There is even a word, logodaedaly, for "the capricious coining of words...
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