Fake words [Was Re: Better Not Pout]

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[nq:1]I say this because good basic reading skills at least enable me to recognize that a word "looks wrong" and to recognize that "fictional" and "admittance" are fake words though highly educated folks use them.[/nq]
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I might have a bright, shiny hook in my cheek, but I found both of these words in a simple search at www.dictionary.com.

Since when have they been "fake words"? And according to whom?
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[nq:1]Hey, I'll be 49 in mid-January. I recall when ain't wasn't in the dictionary. Admission and fictitious were pounded into my head in Catholic school, so admittance and fictional have not been part of my life. Just as the word normality is preferred over normalcy.(snippage)[/nq]
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Gina, in other threads (on alt.tv.er) you talk about your current medical problems, for which you have my sympathy.

But I somehow can't let a cavalier "fake words" put-down pass without comment, especially with the off-hand "though educated people use them" slam. I perceive that the underlying message is a supercilious "Well, I know they're 'fake words' and anyone who uses them is displaying ignorance."
Languages change, and what was considered non-standard in the 1960's (by teachers who were educated a generation earlier) doesn't mean that new words or meanings don't develop over time in the rest of the English-speaking world.
Now, to address the your assertions about "fake words":
Admission vs. Addmittance

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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=admission

Usage Note: It is often maintained that admittance should be used only to refer to achieving physical access to a place (He was denied admittance to the courtroom), and that admission should be used for the wider sense of achieving entry to a group or institution (her admission to the club; China's admission to the United Nations). There is no harm in observing this distinction, though it is often ignored. But admission is much more common in the sense ?a fee paid for the right of entry?: The admission to the movie was five dollars.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=admittance
Usage: Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its primary sense of access into some locality or building. Thus we see on the doors of factories, shops, etc. No "admittance." Its secondary or moral sense, as "admittance to the church," is almost entirely laid aside. Admission has taken to itself the secondary or figurative senses; as, admission to the rights of citizenship; admission to the church; the admissions made by one of the parties in a dispute.

And even when used in its primary sense, it is not identical with admittance. Thus, we speak of admission into a country, territory, and other larger localities, etc., where admittance could not be used. So, when we speak of admission to a concert or other public assembly, the meaning is not perhaps exactly that of admittance, viz., access within the walls of the building, but rather a reception into the audience, or access to the performances. But the lines of distinction on this subject are one definitely drawn.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Fictional vs. Fictitious

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fictional

adj 1: related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery" (ant: nonfictional) 2: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story" (syn: fabricated, fancied, fictitious, invented, made-up)
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fictitious

adj 1: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story" (syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, invented, made-up) 2: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" (syn: assumed, false, fictive, pretended, put on, sham)
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

And, even though this wasn't part of the original discussion, but since you threw it in to your "but that's they way I was taught" defense:
Normality vs. Normalcy

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normality
n : conformity with the norm (syn: normalcy) (ant: abnormality)

Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

normalcy
n : conformity with the norm (syn: normality) (ant: abnormality)

Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
I'm fairly sure others will join the thread to correct or contradict me.

Jeffrey "Flopping in the bottom of the boat" Zahn