V-NOTY -- "to (Charlie) sheen"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> Ah, a compendium of Sheenonyms.  Do we sense a category for Portland
> '12 in the great tradition of Cruisiana?  Too early to tell.

I made that very suggestion in a Sheenotweet last Friday:

http://twitter.com/bgzimmer/status/43668507963047936

The Twitter discussion was based on last week's Word Routes column,
"'Winning' Words: The Language of Sheenenfreude":

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2650/

--bgz

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