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[Jonathan Lighter]

First time I heard "Brexit" I thought it was a frog noise.

JL

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> Or if you prefer, for the perBrexed:  https://twitter.com/mrsamhoare?lang=en
>
>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 8:29 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> I just saw a headline, "A Guide for the Brexplexed"
>>
>> DanG
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>> 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: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__wwwords.org_jexit&d=CwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=-58cKJXUKLTD4GDQWQ4yuIgaoR1YjZAQuhWhk9Rvxbo&s=_uULSdW2NWpInFA_RhLsO7QUXX_wxPDu5SmiB_bBeJI&e= .
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wiktionary.org_wiki_hasbian&d=CwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=-58cKJXUKLTD4GDQWQ4yuIgaoR1YjZAQuhWhk9Rvxbo&s=OdSYYhHpPWGtVT2eiMYLPnHPiPOlx_A_B88x0Ke1ZDA&e= ).  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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