Original sentence: Author Douglas Adams, while travelling with British comedy producer John Lloyd, suggested they play a game he had learned at school in which players were challenged to make up plausible word definitions for place names taken from road maps.Humour writer Paul Jennings had published made-up words derived from place-names in a 1963 essay appearing.Many sniglets are portmanteau words, a comedic style often traced to Lewis Carroll.When the format of Lloyd's satirical TV show Not the Nine O'Clock News was sold to America to become Not Necessarily the News, the producers also took the made-up word definition concept, which became Sniglets.in The Jenguin Pennings.into a 1983 book, The Meaning of Liff
Edited sentence: He is also the coiner of the very useful word Resistentialism.However Adams's teacher would appear to have got the idea from humour writer Paul Jennings, who was certainly first to make up words derived from place-names in an essay appearing.Lewis Carroll coined a similar word, "chortle", a combination of "chuckle" and "snort".Lloyd released their own book of hilarious neologisms,The Meaning of Liff, all strictly culled from names 'lying around idle on road-signs'.Meanwhile in 1983 Adams and.On a holiday with British comedy producer John Lloyd, he suggested they play a game a teacher had taught him at school in which players were challenged to make up plausible word definitions for place names taken from road maps.The Sniglets idea derives from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams.The name "sniglet" itself suggests a combination, and diminutive form, of "snicker" and "giggle".When the format of the show was sold to America to become Not Necessarily the News the producers also took the made-up word definition concept, which became Sniglets.in 'The Jenguin Pennings' in 1963.into a spin-off book from Lloyd's satirical TV show Not the Nine O'Clock News