Rethuglican (2000?)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 6/12/06, Orion Montoya <gorion at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > RETHUGLICAN--54,100 Google hits
>
> I've also been seeing "repuglican", which is in ggroups from 1994.

In a Language Log post I also noted Resmuglican, Repiglican,
Redumblican, Rebooblican, Reporklican, Repooplican, Reputzlican, and
Repukelican -- all attested in the blogosphere.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002780.html


--Ben Zimmer

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