[Lexicog] Freedom Fries -- Grist for the OED Mill

[bolstar1]

Freedom Fries: A Dated Concept?
Whatever happened to "Freedom Fries" – you know, that catchphrase that 
once, about three weeks ago, connoted `french fries'

with the 
qualifying denotation, "Hey, France, go suck an egg." So, what does the 
phrase have to do with the price of eggs? Maybe it was the election of 
Sarkoszy. 
       Well, it is just that exhaustive (truly unabridged) 
dictionaries, and certainly verbally-unchallenged American-political-
historian-types, might cite this phrase as exemplificative of (I hate 
that word. I prefer the well-recognized and easily 
pronounceable "exemplicative") the early-twenty-first-century lexicon. 
This is a question of inclusion-exclusion in the 3rd Edition of the 
OED. I'm interested in seeing what happens to that cute expression. 
(Call me a history-in-the-making buff.) 

Scott N.




 
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