Claim for origin of "Cruisazy"

[Sam Clements]

Perhaps the WOTY for 2006 could be "toothiness."

Sam Clements

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From: "Dennis Baron" <debaron at UIUC.EDU>
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: Claim for origin of "Cruisazy"


> would an exodontist give you an out-of-tooth experience?
>
> oh, there's a bright white light at the end of a long tunnel. . . .
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>> Subject:      Re: Claim for origin of                "Cruisazy"
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>> 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:
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>>>
>>>>  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.
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>> I'd go with "exodontist" myself (à la grecque), as in "endodontist",
>> "periodontist".
>>
>> larry
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