[Ads-l] RES: Woty favourite?

[Dan Goncharoff]

I just saw a headline, "A Guide for the Brexplexed"

DanG

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Laurence Horn  wrote:
>
> > > On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Michael Quinion wrote:
> > >
> > > On 28/06/2016 01:25, David Daniel wrote:
> > >> Rumour has it that Brexit will be followed by Grexit, Departugal,
> > Italeave,
> > >> Fruckoff, Czechout, Oustria, Finish, Slovlong, Latervia, Byegium but
> > >> Remainia will stay. (From a friend's Facebook post)
> > >> DAD
> > >
> > > Such collateral creativity knows no bounds. Yesterday morning I came
> > across Jexit, referring to the possible (or probable) resignation of
> Jeremy
> > Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party in Britain. I see now that the Daily
> > Mail recorded it on 26 June: http://wwwords.org/jexit.
>
> >
> > An alternative on this side of the pond (where "been" is a homophone of
> > "bin") would be "Cor-BYN" (or alternately "Cor-been"), as in "has-been"
> or
> > "has-bian" (cf. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hasbian).  But the pun
> > wouldn't work for his (former?) Labour acolytes, for whom he'd have to be
> > "Cor-BEAN".
>
>
> "Corbout" has been a popular joke on Twitter (likewise, "Cameroff").
>
> --bgz
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