# What words has Cecil Adams coined?

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**Created:** [May 1, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-has-cecil-adams-coined/172437 "2003-05-01T18:28:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Assuming\_facts\_not\_in\_evidence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Assuming\_facts\_not\_in\_evidence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Assuming_facts_not_in_evidence)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-has-cecil-adams-coined/172437/1 "2003-05-01T18:28:35Z")

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> \*Originally posted as [What’s the story behind Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven?”](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030425.html) \*  
> …we’ve got a poetical sensibility that, to be objective about it (and believe me, I like “Stairway to Heaven”), probably rates between 2 and 3 millishakespeares.

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-has-cecil-adams-coined/172437/2 "2003-05-01T21:27:06Z")

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**Scott**?? Is that really you? … Welcome back!

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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-has-cecil-adams-coined/172437/3 "2003-05-02T03:53:46Z")

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“Cecil Adams”