[Ads-l] relish = 'revel'

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

I doubt that people use it regularly. Almost certainly it falls into the category of
what Saussure called "parole" (anything not in the standard language; includes e.g.,  dialectal features, slips of the tongue, speech features peculiar to a single individual). Saussure used the term "langue" to indicate the standard language. 
A while back I wrote a monograph on blending in "parole" (most were slips of the tongue):
Syntactic Blending in English Parole. = Forum Anglicum, vol. 15.   Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 1987. 178 pp.
The basic idea behind my compilation of all the examples is that syntactic blending in "parole" occurs frequently, and only a few such blends make it into the big time of the standard language ("langue").

If I had Jon's example in 1987, I would have included it.

Gerald Cohen  
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Jonathan Lighter replied (February 03, 2016 10:28 AM);
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>
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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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