Editing Sniglet (section)

===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>