A method-ology is merely a method that someone is trying to make sound more important. It is adding a noun ending to a noun. Odder still is that the ending actually means “place:” Psychology is trying to find the place of the psyche.
A tip of the pen to my old acting classmate Steve Colbert (Hi, Steve!) for coining “truthiness.” #SteveColbert
A tip of the pen for “tip o’ th’ pin,” used in Bill Griffith’s brilliant comic strip Zippy the Pinhead. #BillGriffith