Nollywood

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 4, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Martin Kaminer wrote:

> Nice.  Similar to "Silicon _________" or my favorite, and this one is
> timeless "The Venice of ________"

As in "Venice, California is the Venice of California"?

LH
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> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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>> On Jul 4, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> "Hooray for Ollywood", here:
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>> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/hooray-for-ollywood/
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>> with Tollywood, Bollywood, Mollywood, Pollywood, Lollywood,
>> Gollywood/Ghallywood, Nollywood [Nigeria], and Jollywood.
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>>> JL
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