"Mc-" prefix, 1963

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On May 24, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Hillary Brown wrote:

> X-y McXerson is surprisingly old. I remember using that formulation in
> high school, back in the mid-1990s, especially with the ultimate
> frisbee team. It may have originated with (or been popularized by)
> _The Simpsons_, as was the case with much of the frisbeeans' jokes.

i don't find it in the usual lists of Simpsons words and phrases, but
it might be out there someplace.

arnold

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