FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

My favourite neologism is “soulmate” (in English language) which was, according to some sources, coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1822. Coleridge wrote in a letter: “To be happy in Married Life… you must have a Soul-mate as well as a House or a Yoke-mate.” It is the combination of the words “soul” and “mate”. The term has skyrocketed in use since the 1980s. Coleridge might have coined the term in light of his own unhappy marriage. When the woman he actually loved became engaged, he married another and spent much of the marriage away from his probably equally unhappy wife.

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