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Serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole from the fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip (the ancient name for Ceylon), who often set sail for one destination and found something even better, by fortunate accident.
David Galef has coined the term morox [XIV, 2] to designate unintentional, inelegant oxymorons such as many fewer problems, largely insignificant , and barely clothed . I collect solecisms of all sorts that I hear on television broadcasts.
"Risky tax scheme" was coined in 1996 to refer to Bob Dole's proposed 15 percent tax cut.
In his book The Image , historian Daniel Boorstin coined the term "pseudo-event" to describe events that have no intrinsic news value but get treated as if they do.
The term fit up was, as far as I can ascertain, coined by the novelist G.F. Newman in his story of a bent detective, Sir, You Bastard , but it is the one that has caught on, at the expense of the real police term.