Xsters

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 1 15:13:13 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

> "Bankster" is a blend of "bank" and "gangster"
>

Plus gangster can have an epenthetic k, making a perfect rhyme with
bankster, reinforcing the association.

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