Struck (adj)

[Scot LaFaive]

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Scot

On Jan 2, 2008 1:32 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:

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> On Jan 2, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Scot LaFaive wrote:
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> > I found this tidbit while looking for writers' strike news.
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> > *"If the Globes is telecast and it is produced by Dick Clark Prods.,
> > which
> > is a struck company, we will picket the show," guild strike
> > coordinator Jeff
> > Hermanson said.*
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> > I've never before encountered *struck* as an adjective for being on
> > strike.
> > Is this the future, the past, or just some fleeting aberration?
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> significant number of google webhits, a lot having to do with the
> writers' strike.  but the OED has relevant cites for "struck" ("Of,
> pertaining to, or affected by an industrial strike. Chiefly U.S.")
> from "struck shop" in 1894 and going on through 1977.
>
> arnold
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