Who first coined the word doable?

Answer 1

I don't know, but I'd like to give them a good flogging. I read somewhere that the word has been around for centuries, but I don't believe it. I think its a silly made-up word that is simply not necessary. There are plenty of good words that work in place of doable: possible, feasible, workable, achievable, etc.

Seeing as how the general public uses only a small fraction of the words in the English language, I see no need to constantly manufacture new words. But I guess making up words is doable, whereas learning existing words is not.

I know where it came from. I hired a learning disabled kid to help me just to help him out in the job market and went out of business subsequently after he started saying "do-able"

Years later he had a girlfriend and a job with the significant boost he got from me and told me they had diagnosed him as epileptic and that was the reason for his previous squalor.

I would say definitely the word has not been around for centuries and only started being circulated when people passed the buck about helping that kid out and it started in 1994.

Same thing with the "segway" someone sitting next to me in a Jaycees GMM asked me if they could have my permission to create a new word. I didn't give them that permission. Instead I said "well, that depends on what it is." She created it anyway and it was entirely unsuccessful. It was character assasination because my business was an oriental grocery store and segmentation of the market was ruined by being associated with a group like the Jaycees.

When people do things in your behalf with your express objection then it is unsuccessful and not possible and will come back to where it started with no progress being made.