What is a Word?

An extraction from the book, Adeology

What is a word?
Communication.

What makes a word?
Usage.

Who says what a word is?
Me. You. We do.

        Words are a form of audible communication that started out as grunts and grumbles and shrieks and hollers, eventually evolving into the discernible, but ever changing, lexicon that we understand to be the human languages of today. At one point, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, was just a “made up word” in a movie—but, all words are made up—and, because people used supercalifragilisticexpialidocious enough, it became a real word that is now 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, are “made up words” meant to be used as tools by non-believers in the debate against deity worship in public spaces.

…hence, adeology.