extreme nouning

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>
> Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky points me to Android ads with nounings of tensed
> verbs, most notably in "a bareknuckled bucketful of does" (no, not the plural
of
> "doe"), conveying that the Droid aggressively does a lot of things:
>
http://phandroid.com/2009/11/09/new-droid-commercials-take-a-turn-for-the-better/
> (cf. "bucket/box/bag of awesome/fail/...", discussed here back in 2009).
>
> on the same site, an ad with "In a world of doesn't, Droid does".

Nancy Friedman has been on this:

http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/11/doe.html
http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2010/04/bucket-of-bad-english.html
http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2010/07/doozy.html

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