A few weeks ago there was an interview on PM on R4 when the interviewee used the word "intertwangled". Subsequently there was a discussion about what it meant and how new words come about. So Eddie Mair, bless him, decided it would be a good idea to get the word into common usage so that it would be added to the OED.
So every night for the following week or so he slipped the word "intertwangled" into his pieces, which of course, generated correspondence...
Dear Eddolyn
I would like to complain in the strongest possible terms about the increaferation in this ridicupid practice of jumblixing up two perfectly satisfadequate words to manubricate some totally unnecerfluous cross-Franken-brid word, just to get it into the OED.
It must terminop now, as this intertwanglificationising just encourages every Tom, Dick and Steve Maskery to jump on the bandwaggon and waste a good half-hour emulaping this idiazy behaviour on national wireless, by composocting a page of complotal nonsbish, in what is obviously just a bare-flatant attempt to get read out on the PM letters slot.
That two grown men should indulge in this childerile behaviour is, quite fronestly, pitithetic.
It worked.
