Re: seeking word meaning "study of new words"

John skrev:
Jens Brix Christiansen wrote:

A thesaurus may be helpful, but googling may be quicker. Try googling to answer this question: What is the mathematical study of shapes and figures called?

Geometry, presumably. The trouble with googling for what I'm stuck over is that I keep getting wrong answers like neology or, lord help us, verbology. Google's fine for getting opinions but I can't see one the OED agrees with.

Geometry indeed.

I suspect (but obviously cannot prove) that the reason you can't unearth a proposal that the OED will confirm is that there is no such word.

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Jens Brix Christiansen
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