[Ads-l] relish = 'revel'

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 3 16:28:49 UTC 2016


The question is whether  people are using it regularly.

The speaker sounded as though she was pretty confident that "relish" was
the right word.

JL

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>
wrote:

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> This is a blend ("relished his strong third-place showing" + "reveled in
> hi=
> s strong third-place showing"), aided by the phonetic similarity of
> "revele=
> d" and "relished". =20
> The sentence Jon passed along is a beautiful example of this feature
> (synta=
> ctic blend aided by phonetic similarity of the blending elements).
> Gerald Cohen
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> Jonathan Lighter (February 02, 2016 5:06 PM), wrote:
> CNN journalist:
> "Last night Marco Rubio relished in his strong third-place showing in
> Iowa.=
> "
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