[Ads-l] More -xits

Thu Jun 30 19:56:22 UTC 2016

Bill Curtis (I think) on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me mentioned Trexit, He it,
and "and everyone's hoping" Sanders win would result in sexit.

VS-)

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 3:43 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

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> from Boxit to Nexit to Spaxit...to Fuxit:
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> > On Jun 29, 2016, at 2:27 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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> > A person talking on NPR this morning (don't know who it was; I just =
> heard a a few seconds) was making "Brisket" jokes.
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> > Oops, sorry.  I see I was scooped.  I will say that I independently =3D
> > embedded the same joke in an e-mail to a British colleague on June 23. =
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> >> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> =3D
> > wrote:
> >> =3D20
> >> Brekekek=3DC3=3DA8xit-ko=3DC3=3DA0x-ko=3DC3=3DA1x?
> >> =3D20
> >> DanG
> >> =3D20
> >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter =3D
> > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> =3D20
> >>> First time I heard "Brexit" I thought it was a frog noise.
> >>> =3D20
> >>> JL
> >>> =3D20
> >>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Laurence Horn =3D
> > <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Or if you prefer, for the perBrexed:
> >>> =3D
> > =
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> >>>> =3D20
> >>>>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 8:29 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
> =3D=
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> > wrote:
> >>>>> =3D20
> >>>>> I just saw a headline, "A Guide for the Brexplexed"
> >>>>> =3D20
> >>>>> DanG
> >>>>> =3D20
> >>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com>
> =3D=
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> > wrote:
> >>>>> =3D20
> >>>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Laurence Horn  wrote:
> >>>>>> =3D20
> >>>>>>>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Michael Quinion wrote:
> >>>>>>>> =3D20
> >>>>>>>> On 28/06/2016 01:25, David Daniel wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Rumour has it that Brexit will be followed by Grexit, =3D
> > Departugal,
> >>>>>>> Italeave,
> >>>>>>>>> Fruckoff, Czechout, Oustria, Finish, Slovlong, Latervia, =3D
> > Byegium but
> >>>>>>>>> Remainia will stay. (=3D46rom a friend's Facebook post)
> >>>>>>>>> DAD
> >>>>>>>> =3D20
> >>>>>>>> Such collateral creativity knows no bounds. Yesterday morning I =
> =3D
> > came
> >>>>>>> across Jexit, referring to the possible (or probable) =
> resignation =3D
> > of
> >>>>>> Jeremy
> >>>>>>> Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party in Britain. I see now that =
> the
> >>> Daily
> >>>>>>> Mail recorded it on 26 June:
> >>> =3D
> > =
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> >>> .
> >>>>>> =3D20
> >>>>>>> =3D20
> >>>>>>> An alternative on this side of the pond (where "been" is a =3D
> > 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 =3D=
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> > have
> >>> to be
> >>>>>>> "Cor-BEAN".
> >>>>>> =3D20
> >>>>>> =3D20
> >>>>>> "Corbout" has been a popular joke on Twitter (likewise, =3D
> > "Cameroff").
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