Nollywood
Arnold Zwicky
zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Wed Jul 4 14:56:44 UTC 2012
On Jul 4, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:
> Someone here found just 273 hits for "Nollywood" in 2003.
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> CNN caption today: "'Netflix Africa' brings Nollywood to the world."
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> No explanation needed, apparently.
"Hooray for Ollywood", here:
http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/hooray-for-ollywood/
with Tollywood, Bollywood, Mollywood, Pollywood, Lollywood, Gollywood/Ghallywood, Nollywood [Nigeria], and Jollywood.
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