Editing Sniglet (section)

==Origin==
===Development by Rich Hall===
The term ''sniglet'' was conceived by comedian [[Rich Hall]] during his tenure on the 1980s [[HBO]] comedy series ''[[Not Necessarily the News]]''.<ref name=Wallraff2006>{{cite web|last=Wallraff|first=Barbara|title=Shouldn't There Be a Word ... ?|date=1 March 2006|work=The American Scholar|url=https://theamericanscholar.org/shouldnt-there-be-a-word/|access-date=28 May 2018}}</ref> Each monthly episode featured a regular segment on sniglets, which Hall described as "any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should".<ref name= "Hall"/> In 1984, a collection of sniglets was published by Hall, titled ''Sniglets (snig' lit: any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should)''.<ref name="Hall">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/snigletssniglita00hall|title=Sniglets (snig'lit): any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should|last=Hall|first=Rich|date=1984-01-01|publisher=Collier Books|isbn=0020125402|location=New York}}</ref> This was followed by a "daily comic panel" in newspapers, four more books, a game, and a calendar.<ref>{{cite book | last = Metcalf | first = Alan | year = 2002 | title = Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success | page = [https://archive.org/details/predictingnewwor00alla/page/23 23] | isbn = 0618130063 | publisher = [[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]] | url = https://archive.org/details/predictingnewwor00alla/page/23 }}</ref> Many sniglets are [[portmanteau]] words, a comedic style often traced to [[Lewis Carroll]].{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}

The Hall books have their entries arranged in alphabetical order like a dictionary, with information on how to pronounce the word, followed by a definition and sometimes accompanied by an illustration. The original book has two appendices, "Anatomical Sniglets" and "Extra Added Bonus Section for Poets", and ''More Sniglets'' includes an "Audio-Visual Sniglets" section. All five books included an "Official Sniglets Entry Blank", beginning, "Dear Rich: Here's my sniglet, which is every bit as clever as any in this dictionary."

The ''Game of Sniglets'' is a board game in which players tried to identify the official sniglet from among a list that also included sniglets that fellow participants had created to go along with a provided definition.<ref name=GameInstructions>{{Cite web| url= http://www.blippee.com/game-instructions/instructions-games-gang-sniglets.pdf|title=The Game of Sniglets Playing Instructions|website= Blippee.com|access-date=2016-04-06}}</ref> Players earn points by either guessing which word is the official sniglet, or by having their word chosen as the best candidate; the points earned determine how many spaces players can advance on the game board. The game instructions offer suggestions for creating a new sniglet, such as combining or [[Blend word|blend]]ing words; changing the spelling of a word related to the definition; or creating new, purely [[nonsense word|nonsensical words]].<ref name= GameInstructions />

===Precursors===
In 1914, humorist [[Gelett Burgess]] published a dictionary of original [[neologism]]s, ''Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed''.<ref name=Wallraff2006/> Humor writer [[Paul Jennings (UK author)|Paul Jennings]] had published made-up meanings of real place-names in a 1963 essay appearing in ''The Jenguin Pennings''.<ref>[https://audioboom.com/posts/2655528-ware-wye-watford ''Ware, Wye, Watford'', read by the author.]</ref> Author [[Douglas Adams]], while travelling with British comedy producer [[John Lloyd (producer)|John Lloyd]], suggested they play a game he had learned at school in which players were challenged to make up plausible word definitions for place names taken from road maps; the definitions they came up with were later incorporated into a 1983 book, ''[[The Meaning of Liff]]''.<ref name="art1">Gartner, Michael (15 March 1987). [https://archive.today/20130131212915/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/104356826.html?dids=104356826:104356826&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+15,+1987&author=By+Michael+Gartner&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=WORDS&pqatl=google Words], ''[[Newsday]]''</ref><ref name="kalaga">{{cite book|title=Nebulae of discourse: interpretation, textuality and the subject|first=Wojciech|last=Kalaga|year=1997|publisher=Peter Lang Pub.|isbn=082043289X}}</ref><ref name="parkvall">{{cite book|title=Limits of Language: Almost Everything You Didn't Know about Language and Languages|first=Mikael|last=Parkvall|year=2006|publisher=William James & Company|isbn=1590281985}}</ref> The similarities and relationship between the content of this book and the Hall concept of sniglets is noted, by Barbara Wallraff, in ''Word Court'' (2001).<ref name=wallraff>{{cite book | author = Wallraff, Barbara | year = 2001 | title =  Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done | page = 306 | isbn = 0544109937 | location = New York | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  | url = https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0544109937 | access-date = 2 April 2016 }}</ref> Douglas Adams believed that when the format of Lloyd's satirical TV show ''[[Not the Nine O'Clock News]]'' was sold to America—where it became ''[[Not Necessarily the News]]''—the producers also took the made-up word definition concept, which became the sniglets popularized by Hall.<ref name=adams>{{cite web | author1 = Adams, Douglas | author2 = Pearlman, Gregg | name-list-style = amp | date = 1987-03-27 | title = Exclusive Interview With Douglas Adams (Author of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'') | url = http://www.liquivista.com/eeeeeegp/NotGiants/Projects/Adams.html | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130923091354/http://www.liquivista.com/eeeeeegp/NotGiants/Projects/Adams.html | archive-date = 2013-09-23 }}</ref>