[Ads-l] RES: Woty favourite?

[Charles C Doyle]

A person talking on NPR this morning (don't know who it was; I just heard a a few seconds) was making "Brisket" jokes.


--Charlie


________________________________

---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: RES: Woty favourite?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.  =20=


LH

> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> =
wrote:
>=20
> Brekekek=C3=A8xit-ko=C3=A0x-ko=C3=A1x?
>=20
> DanG
>=20
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter =
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>=20
>> First time I heard "Brexit" I thought it was a frog noise.
>>=20
>> JL
>>=20
>> 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=3Dhttps-3A__twitter.com_mrsamho=
are-3Flang-3Den&d=3DCwIFaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf1=
3gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3D7-DwbYzPQhyUkaE_pbRcPc4Rljh9HaiDV3uHeh64dG=
s&s=3DxWkz9ePGtQRZ0QDNPiQjIVJbPjxbDlx6V5RApG0hjJc&e=3D=20
>>>=20
>>>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 8:29 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> =
wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> I just saw a headline, "A Guide for the Brexplexed"
>>>>=20
>>>> DanG
>>>>=20
>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Laurence Horn  wrote:
>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Michael Quinion wrote:
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> 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. (=46rom a friend's Facebook post)
>>>>>>>> DAD
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> 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=3Dhttp-3A__wwwords.org_jexit&d=3D=
CwIBaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZR=
sMFFaLQ&m=3D-58cKJXUKLTD4GDQWQ4yuIgaoR1YjZAQuhWhk9Rvxbo&s=3D_uULSdW2NWpInF=
A_RhLsO7QUXX_wxPDu5SmiB_bBeJI&e=3D
>> .
>>>>>=20
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> 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=3Dhttps-3A__en.wiktionary.org_w=
iki_hasbian&d=3DCwIBaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz=
0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3D-58cKJXUKLTD4GDQWQ4yuIgaoR1YjZAQuhWhk9Rvxbo&s=3D=
OdSYYhHpPWGtVT2eiMYLPnHPiPOlx_A_B88x0Ke1ZDA&e=3D
>> ).  But the pun
>>>>>> wouldn't work for his (former?) Labour acolytes, for whom he'd =
have
>> to be
>>>>>> "Cor-BEAN".
>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>> "Corbout" has been a popular joke on Twitter (likewise, =
"Cameroff").
>>>>>=20
>>>>> --bgz
>>>>>=20
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> The American Dialect Society -
>> =
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__www.americandialect.=
org&d=3DCwIBaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsS=
xPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3D-58cKJXUKLTD4GDQWQ4yuIgaoR1YjZAQuhWhk9Rvxbo&s=3Dmhz8dO=
cuKud-3U_F4ROQy4PfbdgsPxsBZtkN9MwWCOw&e=3D
>>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> The American Dialect Society -
>> =
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__www.americandialect.=
org&d=3DCwIBaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsS=
xPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3D-58cKJXUKLTD4GDQWQ4yuIgaoR1YjZAQuhWhk9Rvxbo&s=3Dmhz8dO=
cuKud-3U_F4ROQy4PfbdgsPxsBZtkN9MwWCOw&e=3D
>>>=20
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> The American Dialect Society - =
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__www.americandialect.=
org&d=3DCwIFaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsS=
xPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3D7-DwbYzPQhyUkaE_pbRcPc4Rljh9HaiDV3uHeh64dGs&s=3DaIps_R=
tBRuS3JGYinrhn2tbhDDD9C7qUuivvc67W7ko&e=3D=20
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the =
truth."
>>=20
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> The American Dialect Society - =
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__www.americandialect.=
org&d=3DCwIFaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsS=
xPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3D7-DwbYzPQhyUkaE_pbRcPc4Rljh9HaiDV3uHeh64dGs&s=3DaIps_R=
tBRuS3JGYinrhn2tbhDDD9C7qUuivvc67W7ko&e=3D=20
>>=20
>=20
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - =
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__www.americandialect.=
org&d=3DCwIFaQ&c=3D-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=3DwFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsS=
xPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=3D7-DwbYzPQhyUkaE_pbRcPc4Rljh9HaiDV3uHeh64dGs&s=3DaIps_R=
tBRuS3JGYinrhn2tbhDDD9C7qUuivvc67W7ko&e=3D=20

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org