Some words and expressions have been "coined" either as entirely new words, or "neologisms" or "stolen" or made up from other words. Besides compounding, this is an important source for new vocabulary entering into the English language. Coined expressions are often difficult to understand and translate, especially when they are detached from the contexts of their normal usage--in fact, coins are often as not defined as exceptions to patterns of normal usage. But some coins have entered into common everyday parlance and remain to enrich the language a little more.

We will attempt to gradually concatenate lists of English coins with the distinction that they are to be considered separate as a class of English vocabulary from slang, jargon, argot and other classes of idiomatic expression. The criteria for English coins are that they have entered common spoken or textual English and are thus not contextually dependent.