a Eric Partridge  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 TalkCampaignforsantorumneologismArchivePartridgerevisited quote given appears to be a posthumous updating of his book alas I dont have access to this specific edition d Even if the quote were authoritative it cannot be used either for or against the word neologism in this context because while it describes santorum as the child of a oneman campaign and not having wide usage at the time of print naturally it neither says nor implies that it is not a neologism