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.

        Words: a form of communication that started out as grunts and grumbles and shrieks and hollers eventually evolved into the discernible but ever-changing dialectical lexicon we understand to be the colorful myriad of human languages today. I am sure there will be those who will say that adeology is just a made up word, but, they’re all made up—i.g., 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 recently 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 in discussion, especially by non-believers, as new tools in the debate against the imposition of deity worship in public spaces.

…hence, adeology.