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A dictionary of neologisms owes nearly everything to the citation files behind it, and citation files are very much a product of accident, constrained by budget.
Among the nearly 200 pages of hagiography: 1) letters to Time from Harpo Marx, Salvador Dalí, William Randolph Hearst, and Frank Sinatra ("as usual your information stinks," Frank wrote in 1961); 2) an array of great cover images; 3) Time 's most and least prescient comments (in 1983, a prediction that the paparazzi would kill a member of the royal family, and in 1933, a prediction that Hitler was destined for obscurity); and 4) a list of Time neologisms ("socialite," "televangelist," and "World War II").
What actually appears to happen in cases like this is that neologisms do not appear like a single light bulb going off in one person's head but rather like wheat after spring rains: if the ground is fertile the seed germinates throughout the field.
Most of the 130-odd sources are, quite naturally, UK in origin and persuasion, with a fair sprinkling of US periodicals; others looked at include Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Turkey, Hong Kong, and France (for The International Herald Tribune ). Ayto writes well, and his Introduction (actually, to get fussy about it, Foreword or Preface) sets forth clearly the aims and purposes of this collection of neologisms.
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