Claim for origin of "Cruisazy"

[Dennis Baron]

No, Ron would say it's too transparent. He's got x-ray vision.

Dennis

(notice I resisted typing tooth transparent, or at least I resisted
it for a while)

On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Sam Clements wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Claim for origin of                "Cruisazy"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
>
> Perhaps the WOTY for 2006 could be "toothiness."
>
> Sam Clements
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Baron" <debaron at UIUC.EDU>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 11:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Claim for origin of "Cruisazy"
>
>
>> would an exodontist give you an out-of-tooth experience?
>>
>> oh, there's a bright white light at the end of a long tunnel. . . .
>>
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>
>>> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
>>> -----------------------
>>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>>> Subject:      Re: Claim for origin of                "Cruisazy"
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> --
>>> ---------
>>>
>>> At 10:04 AM -0500 1/13/06, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>>>> In a message dated 1/13/06 9:45:05 AM, AAllan at AOL.COM writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  Google
>>>>>  Cruisazy, see where it leads, always to MissWit!
>>>>>  It's totally cruisazy that you should leave this valuable
>>>>> information
>>>>>  out!  Where is the truthiness in your reporting?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The information is not particularly valuable to anyone except
>>>> MissWit, nor is
>>>> the New Words Competition a "reproting" event. And "Cruizay" is a
>>>> particularly stupid "word," one that should have a half-life
>>>> shorter
>>>> than a fruit fly (or
>>>> Bush Lips). This ranks in importance right down there with--and is
>>>> far more
>>>> egregiously self-serving than--the complaints of the guy who wants
>>>> us to add
>>>> EXODENTIST to the vocaublary of English just in case the aliens,
>>>> when they land,
>>>> have need for a root canal.
>>>
>>> I'd go with "exodontist" myself (à la grecque), as in "endodontist",
>>> "periodontist".
>>>
>>> larry
>>