The coining of the word cryptozoology is often attributed to Belgian-French zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans, though Heuvelmans attributes coinage of the term to the late Scottish explorer and adventurer Ivan T. Sanderson.

In delivering his eulogy, David Lee credited Angell with coining the word " boinking " as a euphemism for sex on Cheers.

The mathematical roots of the idea of fractals have been traced through a formal path of published works, starting in the 17th century with notions of recursion, then moving through increasingly rigorous mathematical treatment of the concept to the study of continuous but not differentiable functions in the 19th century, and on to the coining of the word fractal in the 20th century with a subsequent burgeoning of interest in fractals and computer-based modelling in the 21st century.

In 1975 Mandelbrot solidified hundreds of years of thought and mathematical development in coining the word " fractal " and illustrated his mathematical definition with striking computer-constructed visualizations.

Other works include a dictionary of geographical allusions in classical literature, De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, et de nominibus maris liber ( a title desperate for the coining of the word " geography ").

'" The following day the newspaper stated that " Dr. Des Voeux did a public service in coining a new word for the London fog.

He is credited with coining the word " escaflowne ", a Latin-based derivative of the word " escalation ", that would be used in the title.

Roy Greenslade credits the editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, with coining the word " super-injunction " in an article about the Trafigura affair in September 2009.

H. L. Mencken is credited with coining the word " ecdysiast " – from " ecdysis ", meaning " to molt " – in response to a request from Gypsy Rose Lee for a " more dignified " way to refer to her profession.

Authors Patrick Gilligan ( Canada ) and Bertrand Dubuis ( Switzerland ) wrote the first flight manual " The Paragliding Manual " in 1985, officially coining the word Paragliding.

Joseph Epstein was credited for coining the term in 1982, although this is contested and it is claimed that the first printed appearance of the word was in a May 1980 Chicago magazine article by Dan Rottenberg.

He is known for coining the usage of the word Monad in a Gnostic context.

Powell is credited with coining the word " acculturation ", first using it in an 1880 report by the U. S. Bureau of American Ethnography.

Powell is credited with coining the word " acculturation " in 1880, defining it as " the psychological changes induced by cross-cultural imitation.

Common reference to " katanduan " or " kasamdongan ", meaning a place where the tandu or the samdong tree thrives in abundance, led to the coining of the word Catanduanes.

The collecting of bloopers ( and the coining of the term ; the word " boner " had been the common term for such errors previously ) was popularized in America by television producer Kermit Schaefer in the 1950s.

Jiménez de Rada's bias is symbolized in his coining of the semi-erudite etymology of the word Mozarab from Mixti Arabi, connoting the contamination of this group by overexposure to infidel customs, if not by migration.

Harvey was also a wordsmith and has been credited with the coining or first use of the word " jovial " ( derived from the Latin for " pertaining to Jove or Jupiter "), circa 1590, as well as the words " conscious ", " extensively ", " idiom ", " notoriety " and " rascality ".

Credited for coining the word " infomercial " was hospitality / entertainment impresario Paul Ruffino whose CineStar company was a pioneer in purchasing program-length commercial time.

Pepys records " vest " as the original term ; the word " waistcoat " derives from the cutting of the coat at waist-level, since at the time of the coining, tailors cut men's formal coats well below the waist ( see dress coat ).

John Brunner's 1975 novel The Shockwave Rider is notable for coining the word " worm " to describe a computer program that propagates itself through a computer network, used as a weapon in the novel.

Larson is credited with coining the word " battlestar ," a contraction of the phrase " line-of-battle starship ", after being convinced to rename Adama's Ark to include the word " star " in the title in some way.

The American sociologist and demographer Kingsley Davis is credited with coining the term but it was used earlier by George Stolnitz, who stated that the concept of a stationary population dated back to 1693.

The small building above the North Gate is traditionally said to have been a mint, known in Scots as the Cunzie Hoose or " coining house ".

The processing plant was powered by a hydroelectric scheme situated in the mountains above, and made Kinlochleven the first village in the world to have every house connected to electricity, coining the phrase " The Electric Village ".

Although he is usually credited with coining the phrase, he always insisted that it was suggested to him by somebody else.

While concentrated on establishing a modern, centralised state in Sicily, he was mostly absent from Germany and issued far-reaching privileges to Germany's secular and ecclesiastical princes: In the 1220 Confoederatio cum principibus ecclesiasticis, Frederick gave up a number of regalia in favour of the bishops, among them tariffs, coining, and fortification.

( Historical Note: Prior to the coining of the term " consequentialism " by Anscombe in 1958 and the adoption of that term in the literature that followed, " utilitarianism " was the generic term for consequentialism, referring to all theories that promoted maximizing any form of utility, not just those that promoted maximizing happiness.

RCA was credited with coining the term " Virtual Memory ".

Although the terms anarcho-syndicalism and revolutionary syndicalism are often used interchangeably, the anarcho-syndicalist label was not widely used until the early 1920s ( some credit Sam Mainwaring with coining the term ).

The movie was notable for coining the term firewall in reference to computer network security.

He was also responsible for coining the term psychosurgery.

Putnam was involved in coining the term " pure realism " ( see below ).

He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the term itself and the phrase " nature versus nurture ".

Although the terms anarcho-syndicalism and revolutionary syndicalism are often used interchangeably, the anarcho-syndicalist label was not widely used until the early 1920s ( some credit Sam Mainwaring with coining the term ).

Like Simonides, he followed the lyric tradition of coining compound adjectives – a tradition in which the poet was expected to be both innovative and tasteful – but the results are thought by some modern scholars to be uneven.

In the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, Rank will be credited with coining the term " pre-Oedipal ", which was previously mistakenly thought to have been introduced by Freud or Klein.

Pazder was also the individual responsible for coining the term " ritual abuse ".

The name Crystal Palace ( the satirical magazine Punch usually gets the credit for coining the phrase ) was later used to denote this area of south London and the park that surrounds the site, home of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.

A prominent computing scientist, E. W. Dijkstra, wrote in a paper that the coining of the term software engineer was not useful since it was an inappropriate analogy, " The existence of the mere term has been the base of a number of extremely shallow — and false — analogies, which just confuse the issue ... Computers are such exceptional gadgets that there is good reason to assume that most analogies with other disciplines are too shallow to be of any positive value, are even so shallow that they are only confusing.

The cooker was introduced to England in 1929, and its popularity in certain parts of English society ( owners of medium to large country houses ) led to the coining of the term " AGA Saga " in the 1990s, referring to a genre of fiction set amongst stereotypical upper-middle class society.

A standardized version of Latin was also developed that allowed for the coining of new words while retaining the grammatical rules of Classical Latin.

The term was not obviously popular even among those who agreed with the reason for coining it.

In response to the media's coining of the term, a joke circulated among the US servicemen was " How many hordes are there in a Chinese platoon?

The music itself was common prior to the coining of the label, and was the most popular format along with pop vocalists, before the advent of rock and roll.

The coining of the term " The Scene That Celebrates Itself " was in many ways the beginning of the end for the first wave of shoegazers.