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> It reminds me of the words "cromulent"[2] and "embiggen"[3]; coined by The Simpsons but used in everything from BBC articles to scientific research. populari
by NikkiA 7y ago
> It reminds me of the words "cromulent"[2] and "embiggen"[3]; coined by The Simpsons but used in everything from BBC articles to scientific research.
popularized by the simpsons, at least cromulent was a valid english word before the episode, I don't think embiggen was.
- toby- 7y agoI don't think that's true. I can find no reference to "cromulent" existing pre-Simpsons, and every source explicitly says it was coined by David Cohen for an episode. From Wiktionary: "A humorous, intentionally morphologically opaque neologism coined by American television writer David X. Cohen for 'Lisa the Iconoclast', a 1996 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons." From Merriam-Webster: "It is safe to say that The Simpsons has contributed a great deal to the English language. One famous example is cromulent, which was coined specifically for the 1996 episode 'Lisa the Iconoclast'."