"X redux"
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Jul 26 03:43:02 UTC 2002
At 6:55 PM -0400 7/25/02, Duane Campbell wrote:
>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.
And by me; I gave a paper a couple of years ago on "Welsh rarebit" as
etymythology, called of course "Rarebit Redux".
larry
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