X 'n Y (was Re: LSSU Word Banishment)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:32 PM -0500 12/12/03, Seán Fitzpatrick wrote:
>I agree that the idea of one quick and easy operation is not to be
>gainsaid by quibbles about redundancy.
>
>Could "rock 'n roll" have supplied the canonical form:  pres.
>inf.+pres. inf. & alliteration/rhyme?
>
>Not only commercial corporations use binomial jingle modifiers.
>The military adopts them ("slice 'n dice") and coins them ("shoot 'n
>scoot" a.k.a. "fire and forget").
>
>Seán Fitzpatrick

Good point.  I guess "peel 'n' eat", being neither alliterative nor
rhyming, must have failed to charm the LSSU group.  Maybe they'd have
preferred my proposal for a fast food emporium, the Scarf 'N' Barf.

larry