Higgledy-Piggledy
President Jefferson
Gave up the ghost on the
Fourth of July;
So did John Adams, thus
Proving such patriots
Propagandistically
Knew how to die.
(By the way, this is true: both men died on July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the
signing of the Declaration of Independence.)
Notice that the seventh line is the single word "propagandistically".
Since words of this type, such as "ante-meridiem" and "Franco-American" are relatively
uncommon, we generally allow hyphenated words, and we sometimes resort to inventing
new ones.
This is allowed, at least among friends, as long as the new word is based upon existing
English words, prefixes and suffixes, in such a way that it is immediately clear what
the word must mean.
For example, "duo-chromatically" clearly refers to actions taken using two colors;
and "unduodactylly" means writing without using double-dactyls, as in the following
self-referential example, which I wrote one night after my friend Evan complained that
he was growing tired of constantly writing hig-pigs, and was thinking of turning to
some other form: