Fanboy (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

My latest Word Routes column talks about McCracken's "fanboy" research
and also the development of the FANBOYS acro-mnemonic for coordinating
conjunctions:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2286/


On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for this. Very interesting.
>>
>> Though I disagree with the notion that we "professional
>> etymologists" "blew it" simply because the 1919 example
>> doesn't have the same nuances as the modern one, because the
>> definition makes this clear. Hrmph.
>>
>> Jesse Sheidlower
>> OED
>>
> And a well-written comment by Jack
>
> http://technologizer.com/2010/05/17/fanboy/#comment-45080
>
> makes the point very well

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