What Is A Word?

What is a word? Communication.

How is a word made? Usage.

Why words? Necessity.

Who says what a word is? We do.

        All words are made up—a form of communication that started out as grunts and grumbles and shrieks and hollers eventually evolved into the discernible but ever-changing lexicon that we understand to be the myriad of human languages today. At one point, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, was just a “made up word” in a movie; but people used it enough and now it is defined in the dictionary as meaning: extraordinarily good. Dan Barker just published the book, Contraduction, titled with another “made up word”. Words like adeology, adeist, adeism, et al. are intentionally “made up’ words meant to be used as tools in discussion—and, especially by non-believers in the debate against the imposition of deity worship in public spaces.

…hence, adeology.