This is probably old news to some, but new to me.
Google the terms "medireview", "chreviewier", "primreview" and see what you come up with.
Are these new additions to the lexicon? Well, I suppose it depends on how you look at it.
While reading a post about spellchecker errors on Language Log, I learned that a few years ago some Yahoo Mail users experienced a unique form of editing. Emails in HTML format that were sent to a Yahoo address were filtered by Yahoo's security...uh, filter...and certain words, or partial words, were automatically changed to prevent cross-site scripting attacks. Eval was changed to review (so medieval became medireview, primeval became primreview, and, my favourite, cheval became chreview).
At some point, Yahoo resolved the filter problem, but there are plenty of remnants to be found on the Net for your reviewuation.
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