Every flipping Staff Report (including the most recent one) ends with the disclaimer
Can’t something be done about that? Continued exposure to the word[sup]1[/sup] accuracywise is threatening to rob me of my sanity. Is it someone’s lame effort at humor? It doesn’t come close. (Saltwater taffywise, now that’s humor.)
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[sup]1[/sup]I use the word word loosely. Accuracywise is not in any of my dictionaries, and if it were, I’d throw out the offending tome.
Grammarwise, I think you have a good point. (Now tell me you didn’t see that coming.)
Dictionaries reflect use. At best they are historically authoritative. To me, the neologism “accuracywise” strikes an appropriate tone: clear, yet slightly mocking – Zottish even.
picmr, I do believe you’ve coined your fist adjective. This momentous event will doubtless appear in a future OED. And I was there! I saw it happen!
Zottish (adj) - First mention in print: Straight Dope Message Board (11 March 2001) by picmr - brought to our attention by AW (see appendix with list of contributors). Sweet immortality is yours and mine.
Cecilophant.
Oh, come on. The joy of English is its ability to add to and subtract from the body of words in general use. This usage will either thrive or die; nothing to be done about it. In ten years it will either be part of the language or forgotten. The English language is essentially Darwinest- those constructions, no matter how wierd, which people believe useful survive; those that are unfit die. No Academy of English, unlike French; that way lies stagnation.
Ah, but Arnold was sucking up to Ed, not Cecil. I think a more appropriate coinage would be Zottoady. 
I am of course assuming that your coinage refers to sycophant. But perhaps you are likening Arnold to some sort of pachyderm?
Well, Jumbo Wrinkleried never seems to forget a column.
I think accuracywise is both double-plus good and k3wl.
I’d like to add “yourguys’s” to the list.
In Jamaican English, that would be “a fi oonu.”
Jumbo Wrinkleried! That’s a good one picmr. ROTFL.
Come over here a second so I can congratulate you properly. ::SMACK::
Colibri, please do not encourage the “wits” of the SDMB.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but “Zottish” is already used as an adjective to describe things pertaining to Zotts, an Indian-Gypsy tribe (probably deriving from the Jats).
I’m afraid the most neologistic utility you’ll get is a new meaning of the word.
And another thingness–shouldn’t the thread title, Annoyancewise use of “accuracywise”, in order to be even more correcter-like, be: Annoyacizing use of “accuracywise”?
Um, what’s the problem here? The suffix -wise means something like “in the matter of” or “pertaining to”. I don’t know of any reason why it shouldn’t be affixed to the word “accuracy”, to form a word meaning “in the matter of accuracy”, which, judging from context, is exactly what the word is intended to mean.