Editing Sniglet (section)

===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 />