[Ads-l] RES: Woty favourite?

[Dan Goncharoff]

Brekekekèxit-koàx-koáx?

DanG

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
> >>
> >> 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:
> 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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