"X redux"
Duane Campbell
dcamp911 at JUNO.COM
Thu Jul 25 22:55:35 UTC 2002
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:51:49 -0400 Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
writes:
> Various dictionaries do include this, with definitions like
> "(used postpositively) brought back, revisited, returned,"
> etc., which is certainly how I intended it. I believe it was
> originally in titles, e.g. Trollope's _Phineas Redux,_ more
> recently Updike's _Rabbit Redux_ and so forth.
It is also a word much favored by Newsweek.
D
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