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At least since Lewis Carroll intrigued his readers with Jabberwocky, there have been writers—Robert Heinlein and Dr. Seuss, to name two—who deliberately minted new words.
But some have escaped and spread like weeds to become part of the language: Heinlein's grok, for example.
Those remote control arms with which laboratory personnel handle toxic, radioactive, or infections substances are called waldos (from Robert Heinlein's Waldo , 1942): the title charcter, Waldo F. Jones, who has a crippling disease, invents these devices to amplify the strength of his wasted mucles.
' It is not clear why Heinlein chose such an unpretty word for such a beautiful concept (maybe it is euphonious to the Martian auditory apparatus); it has, nevertheless, caught on.
per Robert A. Heinlein.