celebutard

[Erik Hoover]

This has pretty much petered out, but can't we somehow bring petard
into this?  [I'm not talking about Ms Hilton's dog.]
That might get the "poot" conversation going again, too.

Erik



On Jun 8, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

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> On 6/8/07, ddr11 <ddr11 at uvic.ca> wrote:
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>> I'm all, does the folk spelling "celebuty" have anything to do
>> with it?
>>
>> It's a googlewhack in the singular, but I've totally seen
>> undergrads write
>> it.  Google turns up an alternate spelling "celebut".
>>
>> Seven hits for the plural "celebuties", three for "celebutys",
>> googlewhack
>> for "celebuts".
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>> There's some wiggle room in popular phonology between /yu/ and /ri
>> ~ li/,
>> viz. "nucular", "ambliance", and so on.
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> The medial "-u-" /yu/ ultimately derives from the original blend
> "celebutante" ("celebrity" +
> "debutante"), which in turn spawned various secondary celebu-blends.
> The full history is here:
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> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004066.html
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