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Onomasticon III

Abstract

In his November 1978 article, Logopoeia, Philip M. Cohen defines his title word as a coined word meaning \u27word-coinging.\u27 This definition does not do an established word justice. Logopoeia was defined by Ezar Pound -- who may have coined it -- in ABC of Reading (1934); and while logopoeia is literally making of words, Pound gives the word a much richer definition. The accepted meaning of this and most (all?) other -poeia words (from the Greek poiein, to make) are in the following onomasticon. Perhaps this should have been subtitled Much Ado About \u27Making\u27

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