a Eric Partridge 1894 1979 was hugely authoritative in the field of slang and neologism in English b He died prior to any of the events under discussion here making him an unreliable source on them c The Talk Campaign for santorum neologism Archive 5 Partridge revisited quote given appears to be a posthumous updating of his book alas I don t have access to this specific edition d Even if the quote were authoritative it can not be used either for or against the word neologism in this context because while it describes santorum as the child of a one man campaign and not having wide usage at the time of print naturally it neither says nor implies that it is not a neologism