execution-style

[Jonathan Lighter]

Presumably because "execution-style" is now so completely lexicalized it
seemed to be the only possible adverb.

JL

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: execution-style
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I am surprised that "executed ... execution-style" survived the internal
> editor in the brain of people supposedly of above-average literacy.
>
> DanG
>
> DanG
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> > -----------------------
> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      execution-style
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > _All Things Considered_ reports that Syrian rebels "executed
> > [captives] execution-style."
> >
> > I.e., with a bullet to the head. Not in OED.  "Gangland-style" is a near
> > synonym, also absent from OED. Nor does OED really recognize the 20th C.
> > sense of "execution" as "the murder of a rival, esp. on orders, by a
> member
> > of a criminal gang, ."
> >
> > J:
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> >
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org