to "course-correct"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Women on "reality shows"like _Bridezillas_ also tell each other to "Man up!"

I've also heard them immediately correct themselves (while sounding
doubtful) to "Woman up."

JL

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> Just yesterday I heard, "Well, he finally man upped."
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> Looking at Google books, I found the (unrelated but interesting)
> double-inflected phrase "upping and leaving."
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> --Charlie
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> On Oct 3, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > ... I'm reminded of the conflict in the
> > barracks, back in the day, between the supporters of _re-ing up_ and
> > the backers of _re-upping_.
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> > Naturally, each side thought that the other side was *seriously*
> > compromised in its control of derivation in English.
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> OED3 (March 2010) has "re-up" with "up" treated as a verb "with reference
> to the holding up of one's right hand on taking the oath of enlistment into
> the United States armed forces", so that inflection should be on the final
> element (as it is in all the OED examples).
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> but that wouldn't preclude analyzing the thing as a mystery head "re-" plus
> the particle "up", in which case inflection would go on the first element.
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> arnold
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