[Ads-l] New to me

[Ben Zimmer]

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.
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> goo.gl/JctsY4
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