Heard this on the BBC the other day: they had a competiton to find names for things that don't have names but ought to. One (two!) of the winners was for those people you see standing around smoking outside lobbies and fire exits with cigarettes because they're no longer allowed to smoke inside. "Snoutcast" is an excellent new UK English word, which I feel deserves to be promoted; I shall use it at every opportunity. On the other hand, "snout" just means a pig's nose in the US (it's UK prison slang for "tobacco", btw), so the US comp came up with "cigarati". Not bad, but doesn't have the je ne sais quoi to my mind. (I resisted the temptation to say "close, but no ...")

Come on, it's a living language: spread the word(s)!

Steve