New Words

Confuded {Kahn·fud·did} /adjective - 1. Being confused or befuddled
etymology: Believed to be derived from Standard English confused (being perplexed or disconcerted) and the result of a standard typo.
confud/ verb
confudely/ adverb
confudedness/ noun

Concisize {Kahn·sIs·Iz} /verb - 1. To take a long section of text and make it shorter. Often the converting of passages of text to tables is involved.
etymology: Modern adaptation of the Standard English "to make more concise." Thus concisize is the result of concisizing "to make more concise."
consisized/ verb- past tense

Metacognate {met·ah·kog·naet} /verb - 1. To engage in the process of metacognition.
Etymology: back-derived from metacognition (noun).
Metacognated/ verb - past tense

Uneliminable {Uhn·E·lim·in·a·bul} /noun - 1. Not able to be eliminated

Schmissertation {shmi·sur·tay·shun} /adjective - 1. Often used in conjunction with dissertation (long paper produced by graduate students) as in "Dissertation schmissertation" to express frustration, annoyance or lack of motivation.
Etymology: Derivative of dissertation. The sch- sound added to the front may be connected to the word schmuck. The exact origins, however, are unclear.

To-the {tu·thuh or tu·thE} /conjunction of preposition and direct article - 1. Used to denote an action in a particular direction or to an object that is unique or has been previously specified (e.g., he walked to-the building) 2. Used to denote action to a particular limit (e.g., she read to-the end of the paragraph)
Etymology: Conjunction of to and the. Particularly useful when bound by word limits or when one has made a statements such as "I've got three words for you" followed by "regression to the mean." Clearly, the use of to-the in the second sentence makes for a logically consistent pair of sentences.
variation: To-a /preposition and indefinite article - variation of to-the used when the noun following has not been previously specified (e.g., he walked to-a building)

Pedagogicality {ped.a.gah.jih.kal.i.tE} /noun - 1. quality or state of being pedagogical. 2. The lesser known refrain to Mary Poppins' perennial favorite, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" . Sadly, it was the victim of
over-zealous editing.