disband/reband

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:31 PM -0500 1/10/08, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>The verb "reband" (unknown to the dictionaries) frequently shows up in
>online histories of music groups, meaning 'reunite after
>disbanding'...

No doubt, as you suggest below, facilitated by
the dual interpretive possibilities of "disband".
As it happens, there's another possible
interpretation here for bilinguals--"bander" is
the French verb for 'to get an erection', so
predictably (as a quick google search on "je
rebande" or "j'ai rebandé" will confirm),
"rebande" has the compositional sense 'get an
erection again (after an interval)', or
're-erect'.   The metaphorical possibilities are
robust.

LH

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>http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/musicarts/explorer/folk/
>They continually changed line-up, disbanded and rebanded but finally
>stopped performing in 2005.
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>http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A456257
>While Eef Barzelay plays solo gigs, disbands,
>and rebands, Clem Snide persists.
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>http://www.ceolas.org/artists/Quick_Takes.html
>Alan McLeod moved to Vancouver to play with the Paperboys, who have
>also since disbanded (and maybe rebanded again, from recent reports).
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Edwards
>He is also a member of Frost, a progressive group formed and
>disbanded, rebanded, disbanded and re re banded in 2007 by the
>songwriter/producer Jem Godfrey.
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>http://copycommaright.blogspot.com/2007/11/nobody-told-me-it-was-gonna-turn-out.html
>Uriah Heep may have disbanded and rebanded a time or two very briefly,
>but they've periodically been releasing new albums for 30+ years.
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>
>The "disband"/"reband" pair makes the most sense in relation to
>musical bands (suggesting a crypto-eggcornic reading of "disband"),
>but it occasionally appears in non-musical contexts as well:
>
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>http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/thefalls/archive/?postID=2775
>The homeless tent city disbanded - only to reband.
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>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.law-enforcement/msg/14836d73563f4b6a
>South Omaha activist Virgil Armandirez has repeatedly voiced his
>disdain for the disbanding of the Metro Unit. A local businessman and
>hispanic activist, Armandirez has
>called for the rebanding and deployment of the Metro Unit to protect
>the citizens of South and North Omaha.
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>http://www.theboard.byu.edu/index.php?area=posts&date=2004.06.22&archives=1
>But before I ever came up with one, the Board was disbanded. I
>remember being pretty disappointed - and then thrilled when it was
>"rebanded" a short time later.
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>
>
>--Ben Zimmer
>
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