{"id":18833,"date":"2026-07-25T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18833"},"modified":"2026-07-05T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:13:16","slug":"100-of-words-are-made-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2026\/07\/25\/100-of-words-are-made-up\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201c100% of words are \u2018made-up\u2019\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A great 3-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BoMDLw0ozy4\">video by Sunn m\u2019Cheaux<\/a>, posted in 2025, about some people\u2019s concerns over whether a given word is \u201creal\u201d or \u201cmade up.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cNot only are y\u2019all \u2018allowed\u2019 to do it, can\u2019t nobody <em>stop<\/em> you from doing it.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cPeople making up words is how we <em>get<\/em> words.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>(Via KTO)<\/p>\r\n<p>(See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnmcheaux.com\">m\u2019Cheaux\u2019s website<\/a>.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18836,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833\/revisions\/18836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}