Editing Nonce word (section)

== In literature ==

A poem by [[Seamus Heaney]] titled "Nonce Words" is included in his collection ''[[District and Circle]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heaney |first1=Seamus |title=District and Circle |date=2006 |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=0-571-23097-0 |at=no. 28}}</ref> [[David Crystal]] reported ''fluddle'', which he understood to mean a water spillage between a puddle and a flood, invented by the speaker because no suitable word existed. Crystal speculated in 1995 that it might enter the English language if it proved popular.<ref name=Crystal/> [[Bouba/kiki effect|''Bouba'' and ''kiki'']] are used to demonstrate a connection between the sound of a word and its meaning. ''[[Grok]]'', coined by [[Robert Heinlein]] in ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'', is now used by many to mean "deeply and intuitively understand".<ref name=OED>{{cite web |url=https://www.oed.com/ |title=OED online |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |access-date=17 August 2022 |quote=}}</ref> The poem "[[Jabberwocky]]" is full of nonce words, of which two, ''[[wikt:chortle|chortle]]'' and ''[[wikt:galumph|galumph]]'', have entered into common use.<ref name=OED/> The novel ''[[Finnegans Wake]]'' used ''quark'' ("three quarks for Muster Mark") as a nonce word; the physicist [[Murray Gell-Mann]] adopted it as the name of a [[Quark|subatomic particle]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Gell-Mann |first=Murray |title=The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex |page=180 |publisher=[[Henry Holt and Co.]] |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-8050-7253-2}}</ref>