Editing Sniglet (section)

==Beyond comedy==
In a 1990 interview, Hall was asked if the "Sniglets books [were] completely for comic value?"  He answered,{{quote|Yeah. Well, no. I wouldn't say they're completely for comic value. I mean, I get letters from schools all the time saying how they've incorporated a sniglet book into their reading program. You can look at a lot of the words and sort of break them down into their [[etymological]] origins. And you can learn a lot about how and where words derive from. When you assign this frailty of human nature a word, then the word has to work. It has to either be a hybrid of several other words, or have a [[Latin]] origin, or something.<ref name=interview>{{cite journal | author = Lerner, Reuven M. | date = 1990-09-25 | title = An interview with Rich Hall | journal = The Tech |publisher=[[MIT]] | volume = 110 | issue = 37 | page = 10 | url = http://tech.mit.edu/V110/N37/hall.37a.html }}</ref>}} Anne Wescott Dodd's ''A Handbook for Substitute Teachers'' (1989)<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Handbook for Substitute Teachers |last= Dodd| first= Anne| publisher= C.C. Thomas|year=1989|isbn=0398055394|location=Springfield, Ill.}}</ref> and Marcia L. Tate's ''Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Literacy Strategies That Engage the Brain'' (2005)<ref>{{cite book|title= Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Literacy Strategies That Engage the Brain |first= Marcia |publisher= Corwin Press|year=2005|isbn=1412915104|location=Thousand Oaks, California|author=Tate}}</ref> suggest creating sniglets as a classroom activity, and so bear out his claim.

Popular English language experts such as [[Richard Lederer]] and [[Barbara Wallraff]] have noted sniglets in their books, ''The Miracle of Language''<ref name="lederer">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671028114/page/58|title=The Miracle of Language|first=Richard|publisher=Pocket Books|year=1999|isbn=0671028111|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671028114/page/58 58]|author=Lederer}}</ref> and ''Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done'',<ref name=wallraff/> respectively. The idea has been borrowed by Barbara Wallraff for her book ''Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words'', where "word fugitives" is her term for invented words.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words |last=Wallraff |first=Barbara |publisher=Harper |year=2006 |isbn=0060832738 |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/wordfugitives0000wall/page/5 5] |url=https://archive.org/details/wordfugitives0000wall/page/5 }}</ref> Wallraff's ''[[Atlantic Monthly]]'' column "Word Fugitives"<ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/fugitives/index.htm |title= Word Fugitives | website= The Atlantic |access-date=2016-04-06}}</ref> features words invented by readers, although they had to be [[pun]]s, which many sniglets are not.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}