It’s rare that a new word can be coined, popularized, and made an official part of the language through the efforts of a single individual. But that hasn’t stopped Professor James Vanden Bosch of Michigan’s Calvin College from pursuing a one-man crusade to get his favorite made-up word – presticogitation – into the Oxford English Dictionary. Vanden Bosch has actually done a remarkably good job of convincing his studnts over the years to use the word in their writing, but the folks at OED are a much tougher sell.