[Ads-l] -stock (festival)

[Ben Zimmer]

See Nancy Friedman's 2013 piece for more on the "-stock" libfix.

https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/candlepwr/taking-stock/

On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 12:45 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I don't believe this sense of stock, as a suffix, is in the OED.
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> Derives from "Woodstock" (obviously).
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> I recall "w00tstock"
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W00tstock
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> and have just seen "flagstock"
> https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2024/06/university-flagstock-party
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> warpstock
> http://www2.warpstock.org/97/index.html
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> hempstock
> https://hempstockct.com/
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> weedstock
> https://weedstock.org/
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> commstock
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commstock
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> beerstock
> https://www.facebook.com/PortDoverBeerstock/
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