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Thu Jun 30 19:39:27 UTC 2016

from Boxit to Nexit to Spaxit...to Fuxit:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/whats-up-with-the-u-k-a-handy-lexicon-of-exiting

LH

> On Jun 29, 2016, at 2:27 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
> 
> A person talking on NPR this morning (don't know who it was; I just heard a a few seconds) was making "Brisket" jokes.
> 
> 
> --Charlie
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> Oops, sorry.  I see I was scooped.  I will say that I independently =
> embedded the same joke in an e-mail to a British colleague on June 23.  =20=
> 
> 
> LH
> 
>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> =
> wrote:
>> =20
>> Brekekek=C3=A8xit-ko=C3=A0x-ko=C3=A1x?
>> =20
>> DanG
>> =20
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter =
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> =20
>>> First time I heard "Brexit" I thought it was a frog noise.
>>> =20
>>> JL
>>> =20
>>> 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=3Dhttps-3A__twitter.com_mrsamho=
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>>>> =20
>>>>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 8:29 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> =
> wrote:
>>>>> =20
>>>>> I just saw a headline, "A Guide for the Brexplexed"
>>>>> =20
>>>>> DanG
>>>>> =20
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> =
> wrote:
>>>>> =20
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Laurence Horn  wrote:
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Michael Quinion wrote:
>>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>>> 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. (=46rom a friend's Facebook post)
>>>>>>>>> DAD
>>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>>> 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:
>>> =
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>>> .
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>> 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.
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>>> ).  But the pun
>>>>>>> wouldn't work for his (former?) Labour acolytes, for whom he'd =
> have
>>> to be
>>>>>>> "Cor-BEAN".
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> "Corbout" has been a popular joke on Twitter (likewise, =
> "Cameroff").
>>>>>> =20
>>>>>> --bgz
>>>>>> =20
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