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[Laurence Horn]

Oops, sorry.  I see I was scooped.  I will say that I independently embedded the same joke in an e-mail to a British colleague on June 23.   

LH

> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Brekekekèxit-koàx-koáx?
> 
> DanG
> 
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> First time I heard "Brexit" I thought it was a frog noise.
>> 
>> JL
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> Or if you prefer, for the perBrexed:
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_mrsamhoare-3Flang-3Den&d=CwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=7-DwbYzPQhyUkaE_pbRcPc4Rljh9HaiDV3uHeh64dGs&s=xWkz9ePGtQRZ0QDNPiQjIVJbPjxbDlx6V5RApG0hjJc&e= 
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 8:29 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I just saw a headline, "A Guide for the Brexplexed"
>>>> 
>>>> DanG
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Laurence Horn  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Michael Quinion wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 28/06/2016 01:25, David Daniel wrote:
>>>>>>>> Rumour has it that Brexit will be followed by Grexit, Departugal,
>>>>>> Italeave,
>>>>>>>> Fruckoff, Czechout, Oustria, Finish, Slovlong, Latervia, Byegium but
>>>>>>>> Remainia will stay. (From a friend's Facebook post)
>>>>>>>> DAD
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Such collateral creativity knows no bounds. Yesterday morning I came
>>>>>> across Jexit, referring to the possible (or probable) resignation of
>>>>> Jeremy
>>>>>> Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party in Britain. I see now that the
>> Daily
>>>>>> Mail recorded it on 26 June:
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__wwwords.org_jexit&d=CwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=-58cKJXUKLTD4GDQWQ4yuIgaoR1YjZAQuhWhk9Rvxbo&s=_uULSdW2NWpInFA_RhLsO7QUXX_wxPDu5SmiB_bBeJI&e=
>> .
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> An alternative on this side of the pond (where "been" is a homophone
>> of
>>>>>> "bin") would be "Cor-BYN" (or alternately "Cor-been"), as in
>> "has-been"
>>>>> or
>>>>>> "has-bian" (cf.
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wiktionary.org_wiki_hasbian&d=CwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=-58cKJXUKLTD4GDQWQ4yuIgaoR1YjZAQuhWhk9Rvxbo&s=OdSYYhHpPWGtVT2eiMYLPnHPiPOlx_A_B88x0Ke1ZDA&e=
>> ).  But the pun
>>>>>> wouldn't work for his (former?) Labour acolytes, for whom he'd have
>> to be
>>>>>> "Cor-BEAN".
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> "Corbout" has been a popular joke on Twitter (likewise, "Cameroff").
>>>>> 
>>>>> --bgz
>>>>> 
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