[Ads-l] -stock (festival)

[Chris Waigl]

(I mean, she was wearing a Chickenstock *T-shirt.)*

On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 3:00 PM Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:

> I see Nancy has Chickenstock music festival, in Chicken, AK.
> https://www.instagram.com/chickenstockmusicfest/?hl=en . It's a local
> favorite. I was out today with some local school classes, their teachers,
> and science outreach people showing off a wildfire site, and one of the 5th
> graders was wearing a Chickenstock festival. She was happy to tell me about
> attending it last June.
>
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 8:51 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> >
>> > Derives from "Woodstock" (obviously).
>> >
>> > I recall "w00tstock"
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W00tstock
>> >
>> > and have just seen "flagstock"
>> > https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2024/06/university-flagstock-party
>> >
>> > warpstock
>> > http://www2.warpstock.org/97/index.html
>> >
>> > hempstock
>> > https://hempstockct.com/
>> >
>> > weedstock
>> > https://weedstock.org/
>> >
>> > commstock
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commstock
>> >
>> > beerstock
>> > https://www.facebook.com/PortDoverBeerstock/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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