Random Note for WOTY 2014: neknominate, -ion, -ed, -ing

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Feb 19 15:12:44 UTC 2014


On Feb 19, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> On Feb 19, 2014, at 3:51 AM, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:
>
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>> Neknominate: 'Lethal' drinking game sweeps social media
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>> By Peter Wilkinson and Isa Soares, CNN
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>> updated 10:47 AM EST, Tue February 18, 2014
>
> there's a Wikipedia page:
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neknominate
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> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

And various other news reports, e.g. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/neknominate.  But none I've seen so far provide an etymology.

LH

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