Claim for origin of "Cruisazy"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Jan 13 16:22:04 UTC 2006


At 10:04 AM -0500 1/13/06, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 1/13/06 9:45:05 AM, AAllan at AOL.COM writes:
>
>
>>  Google
>>  Cruisazy, see where it leads, always to MissWit!
>>  It's totally cruisazy that you should leave this valuable information
>>  out!  Where is the truthiness in your reporting?
>>
>
>The information is not particularly valuable to anyone except MissWit, nor is
>the New Words Competition a "reproting" event. And "Cruizay" is a
>particularly stupid "word," one that should have a half-life shorter
>than a fruit fly (or
>Bush Lips). This ranks in importance right down there with--and is far more
>egregiously self-serving than--the complaints of the guy who wants us to add
>EXODENTIST to the vocaublary of English just in case the aliens,
>when they land,
>have need for a root canal.

I'd go with "exodontist" myself (à la grecque), as in "endodontist",
"periodontist".

larry



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