On "Fakery"

The front page of today's New York Times features the headline "Qaddafi Fakery, Still Revealing," leading me to consider the increasingly widespread use of a word I consider only marginally legitimate. The Oxford English Dictionary lists "fakery" within the second definition of the verb "fake," itself considered slang, and the first printed use of the word "fakery" was not until 1887. "Fake" in its use as a noun has a much longer history, but even its etymological origins are unclear. In the seventeenth century, the word seems to have been a synonym for "fold," but how it evolved into its current definition (only in existence since the late 18th century) can only be guessed at. Might we go as far as to say that the work "fake" was made up, itself faked? Perhaps I move too far away from reality with that conjecture, but the point is

"If you don't believe that "fakery" is a word, why is it the title of your blog?" you may ask. I consider The Fakery to be a place where falsifications are cooked up and ruminated on, a sort of fake bakery, if you will. That the word "fakery" itself has questionable origins only aids the cause of sussing out and expounding on the false, I think. I could have called this blog the "Bunco Bakery," but how many people really know what "bunco" is? I welcome your commentary on this subject.