English Words Coined or Popularised by Famous Authors

Serendipity - Horace Walpole 

Pandemonium - John Milton

Malapropism - Richard Sheridan

Robot - Karel Čapek

Utopia - Thomas More

Dreamscape - Sylvia Plath

Cyberspace - William Gibson

Piehole - Stephen King

Nerd - Dr Seuss

Tween - J. R. R. Tolkien 

Boredom - Charles Dickens

Factoid - Norman Mailer

beep - Arthur C Clarke

 




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