"well, it's anecdotage" - Greg Campbell of Mishcon de Reya, interviewed on Working Lunch today

He was being asked if there was any evidence that the new regulations on extended maternity leave would deter employees from employing women of childbearing age. (A pertinent question for the Department for Unintended Consequences, a body sorely needed by this government. Its sister department, the Office for the Bleeding Obvious, is also missing from the current pantheon.)

I assume he meant "anecdotal" - but his accidental neologism was quite fun. That's what we pay high-flying lawyers so much for, I guess.