Celly

[Bruce K. Dykes]

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Barrett <gbarrett at americandialect.org>
To: ADS-L at UGA.CC.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
Date: Friday, May 14, 1999 09:13
Subject: Celly


>This one's been popping up all over the place: celly, short for cellular
>phone.

That sounds like another example of the popular (okay, maybe not so popular)
British practice of truncating a word after the first syllable, and tacking
a 'y' on the end.

Other examples include telly (television), prezzie (present), and Dussie
(Dusseldorf, used by RAF guys stationed in the Netherlands).

I may be a mutant freak, but I can't be the only person who's noticed this
usage...

Bruce