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[Dan Goncharoff]

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On Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 9:45 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com wrote:

> The morphology has been productive for quite a while now. In fact, "-exit"
> was in the running in the Most Creative category in the 2016 ADS Word of
> the Year vote. In the Feb. 2017 installment of "Among the New Words," we
> covered various examples inspired by "Grexit" (the original blend) and
> "Brexit" (the first offspring). "Frexit" is in there, among many others.
>
> http://bit.ly/ATNW92-1 (pp. 67-9)
>
> "Blexit" is a new twist. I heard Chris Hayes on MSNBC say that Kanye West
> has already bowed out of the supposed movement -- a Blexit-exit.
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 8:56 PM Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Just got back from a month in Paris, where there were posters on
> telephone
> > poles advertising some politician who was in favor of ‘Frexit’.
> Productive
> > morphology now…
> >
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> > _Blexit_: a supposed movement whose purpose is to get black voters, who
> > routinely vote Democratic, to leave the party and vote Republican.
> >
> > goo.gl/JctsY4
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