... manyerisms

[Jonathan Lighter]

> Maybe "mannerisms" + "manufactured", as in put on, feigned.
Er, she didn't sound quite that ingenious....

JL
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> I found a few hits for "maneurythmics", not far from "maneurythms", which
> is pretty close to "manyerisms", but I think I was pushing it.
>  ("Maneurythmics" itself seems to derive from "Missionary Man" +
> "Eurythmics", the latter being the group that recorded the former.  Go
> know.)  Maybe "mannerisms" + "manufactured", as in put on, feigned.
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> LH
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> On Jul 6, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > At 7/6/2011 01:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >> A caller from Iowa observed that Casey exhibits many of the same
> >> "manyerisms" as the convicted  killer Scott Peterson.
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> > Was that pronounced "manureisms"?
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> > Joel
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