[Ads-l] Covidiot

[David Barnhart]

Is it cov+ideot
Or is it covid+eot 

I prefer the first
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> On Mar 22, 2020, at 3:50 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I know "covidiot" appeared earlier, e.g. this tweet from Feb. 26 calling
> Trump "COVIDIOT-45":
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> https://twitter.com/RebeccaNewell7/status/1232663460380631040
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> ...but I was interested specifically in the faux dictionary entry that was
> circulating yesterday.
> 
>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 3:16 PM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> There's an Urban Dictionary definition dated March 14.
>> 
>> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Covidiot
>> 
>> Video example (not hashtagged, but might as well be):
>> https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1241485175915048961?s=20
>> 
>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:56 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 5:46 AM Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Some tweets yesterday:
>>>> 
>>> [snip]
>>> 
>>>> Definitely should be included in the next edition of the Oxford English
>>>> Dictionary #Covidiot https://t.co/rW0heLNWoD
>>>> 
>>>> https://twitter.com/OfficialTerry1/status/1241415992447766531
>>>> 
>>>> See the last one for a definition in the image.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> After seeing this shared on social media yesterday, I was curious to know
>>> who first posted it. Compared to most faux dictionary entries, it's
>> pretty
>>> high quality (down to the correct IPA!). This is the earliest I've found
>>> (timestamped at 2:20 am on Mar. 21), but I doubt it's the original...
>>> 
>>> https://twitter.com/nisheethsharan/status/1241248368384335872
>>> 
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