As the conversation went on, I realized that the words were not coining to me through my ears at all.

Outside the science fiction community, several words and phrases coined or adopted by Heinlein have passed into common English usage:

To many salmoneers (a word coined not long ago in Canada), time on the water is as important as a fish in the net.

Nor, evidently, any word coined since Elsenhower was president.

Non-monogamy is a cop-out, a word coined to avoid the use of a more direct term.

A word coined in the 1960s to describe titles that nowadays would be considered alternative.

It is a word coined locally and whose literal meaning in standard French is "anti-night".

It is similar to ergonomics, a word coined around the same time in reference to the interaction between people and equipment.

A word coined in 1516 by Thomas More, "utopia" was originally a pun, meaning both a good place and no place.

Speaking to my audience as though the words are coining for the first time instead of being repeated verbatim as they've been for twenty years.