Here’s a great post from the Oxford English Dictionaries with some surprises for anyone who thinks they know their coins from their coinages.
Words Invented by Authors
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texthistory 
Love this type of post! We have been blessed with inventive authors of english.
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Yes, and every word carries its own piece of history
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Besides who doesn’t need more wirds in their arsenal?
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Absolutely!
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Man has always played with words,giving us a rich vocabulary.
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There are occasional calls for English to have rules, as in French, but English is far more flexible and needs freedom for us to play with it.
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We have always played with words, and that is why we have such a rich English vocabulary.
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WE also borrow a lot from elsewhere
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