While we don’t yet enter cromulent into our dictionaries, it’s a perfectly cromulent candidate for future entry. Cromulent has crept so deep into the language that it has even shown up as a hypothetical example in a Supreme Court amicus brief. 2005), and even in the name of a theater company. But this I, Robot is a perfectly cromulent bastardization." John Scalzi, PlayStation Magazine, 1 Jan. 1999), reviews of movies ("This film enraged sci-fi geeks because it has almost nothing to do with the Asimov book it stole its title from. In the years following the episode's debut, cromulent showed up in campus op-eds ("The words were struck down as 'too hard,' although both are perfectly cromulent." Patrick Friel, University Wire, 10 Feb. The joke was so sly and subtle that as "It's a perfectly cromulent word" was repeated, it wasn't necessarily clear to the hearer that it was a joke. Cohen came up with cromulent as one of those words. According to the DVD commentary for The Simpsons, the showrunners asked the writers to come up with two nonce words that sounded like words that could be in actual use. The word cromulent ended up in the script courtesy of a showrunner’s challenge to the writers. Though 'cromulent' originated as a joke on The Simpsons, it's a perfectly cromulent candidate for future entry in the dictionary.
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