more back-formed shopping

[Neal Whitman]

These latest additions to the list of backformed compound verbs headed by
'shop' reminded me of 'doctor-shop', which I noticed a couple of years ago
and included with a few other backformations gathered at around the same
time: http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/backformation-roundup/.
The specific quotation with 'doctor-shop' is:

"The decision puts Limbaugh back near square one and is likely to
reinvigorate the criminal investigation into whether he 'doctor-shopped.'"
("Justices won't hear Limbaugh appeal," Palm Beach Post 29 Apr. 2005)

Neal Whitman
Email: nwhitman at ameritech.net
Blog: http://literalminded.wordpress.com

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> judge-shopping/forum-shopping (2) would be acceptable, if discouraged,
> while
> judge-shopping (3) would be frowned upon by ethics committees.
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