celebutard

[Mark Mandel]

Or bastard?

On 6/8/07, Erik Hoover <grinchy at grinchy.com> wrote:
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> This has pretty much petered out, but can't we somehow bring petard
> into this?  [I'm not talking about Ms Hilton's dog.]
> That might get the "poot" conversation going again, too.
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> Erik
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> On Jun 8, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
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> > On 6/8/07, ddr11 <ddr11 at uvic.ca> wrote:
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> >> I'm all, does the folk spelling "celebuty" have anything to do
> >> with it?
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> >> It's a googlewhack in the singular, but I've totally seen
> >> undergrads write
> >> it.  Google turns up an alternate spelling "celebut".
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> >> Seven hits for the plural "celebuties", three for "celebutys",
> >> googlewhack
> >> for "celebuts".
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> >> There's some wiggle room in popular phonology between /yu/ and /ri
> >> ~ li/,
> >> viz. "nucular", "ambliance", and so on.
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> > The medial "-u-" /yu/ ultimately derives from the original blend
> > "celebutante" ("celebrity" +
> > "debutante"), which in turn spawned various secondary celebu-blends.
> > The full history is here:
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> > http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004066.html
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> > --Ben Zimmer
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