Duleek: Sudden realisation, as you lie in bed waiting for the

alarm to go off, that it should have gone off an hour ago.
- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.
- Taken from Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky

In our Talking Point this week we're looking at words or phrases that you yourself have invented; stuff you've actually made up and that you use in everyday speech. These words and phrases might not have made it into the Oxford English Dictionary yet, but all words start somewhere; have some of them started with you?

• Do you make up words for things? If so, what are they? How do you use them and do you think they should be in the dictionary?

• If not you, do you know anyone, friends or relatives, who've coined idiosyncratic words?

• Are there words and phrases that are commonly used in the area where you live but are not used anywhere else?

• Can you think of situations, items, feelings, emotions for which we're still lacking the right word?