[Ads-l] RES: Woty favourite?

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> First time I heard "Brexit" I thought it was a frog noise.
> 
> JL

Brek-ek-ek-exit, as Aristophanes or his frogs (not to be confused with the ones across the channel) would say.

LH
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> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_mrsamhoare-3Flang-3Den&d=CwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=DlZ8HqnjXHZ22OvN9aA-xB9yPDXaYEyg-xHt9iz-Q4g&s=AKJBo4zQDy7x7H5wxe3DjQF2xCipucHE78q1_BVwp94&e= 
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>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 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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