The term "word-manufacture" was first of all used by Bauer(1983:239). Theprocess known as word-manufacture refers to the process of arbitrarily selecting any acceptable sequence of sounds and using it as the name of an object. These words have no etymology. In recent years many of such words have been coined by computers. To quote Bauer, "The purest cases of word-manufacture are when a word is created ex-nihilo, with no morphological, phonological or orthographic motivation whatever".