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I have a few. I'm sure "licensure" is a real word, like composure or seizure. But no.
'But no.'? Yes, licensure is a recognized word.
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Baseball announcer Tom Paciorek entertained baseball fans for years, creating "buntage" and "slideage" on the template of 'drainage? and "linkage".
The words buntage and slideage aren't 'made-up'. They're established nouns with the same established suffix added to each. Someone had to be the first to do so, and they made be unusual and rarely used, but it's not like they're invented from whole cloth.
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I use them formally, as long as they are understood and don't sound "cuteseyfied"'
When writing science fiction, I invent proper nouns.
I've written characters who use non-standard terminology in dialogue.
If a word works, it works, regardless of whether or not it appears in a dictionary.
How do you know if a word is 'made up' or if it's just a bungled form of an existing word, or phrase, that the writer or speaker doesn't know how to properly use?
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