Comments on: Pouring New Wine Into Old Phrasal Bottles http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Phrasal Patterns 2: Electric Boogaloo : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/comment-page-1/#comment-26018 Phrasal Patterns 2: Electric Boogaloo : OUPblog Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:02:44 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/#comment-26018 [...] for generating new concoctions, with some parts kept constant and other parts swapped out? Last week I discussed some simple two-word “templates” that allow for creative choices in filling [...] [...] for generating new concoctions, with some parts kept constant and other parts swapped out? Last week I discussed some simple two-word “templates” that allow for creative choices in filling [...]

]]> By: Ozzie Maland http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/comment-page-1/#comment-25409 Ozzie Maland Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:43:43 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/#comment-25409 RV queried about other conflations of city names with industries, besides Hollywood-video ("film" is now virtually extinct). "Detroit" used to be a term for the auto industry, but that usage is quickly disappearing, like "film." -- Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego RV queried about other conflations of city names with industries, besides Hollywood-video (”film” is now virtually extinct). “Detroit” used to be a term for the auto industry, but that usage is quickly disappearing, like “film.”
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Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego

]]> By: Will http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/comment-page-1/#comment-23543 Will Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:55:50 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/#comment-23543 Rajeev - one similar thing that comes to mind is the Watergate scandal, and how other government scandals in the US have acquired the -gate suffix (e.g. Monicagate) in the media. The name of the place (or part of the name, in your example "wood") becomes associated so strongly with what happened there that it takes on connotations far beyond what the name itself means. Rajeev – one similar thing that comes to mind is the Watergate scandal, and how other government scandals in the US have acquired the -gate suffix (e.g. Monicagate) in the media. The name of the place (or part of the name, in your example “wood”) becomes associated so strongly with what happened there that it takes on connotations far beyond what the name itself means.

]]> By: Rajeev Vaid http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/comment-page-1/#comment-23455 Rajeev Vaid Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:20:23 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/#comment-23455 Hi just like bollywood (the Bombay Film industry) is part of the dictionary is Lollywood (Lahore) And Tollywood (kalKutta)also part of the dictionary. How about sharing some gyan on this. Words popular because of strange concoction of cities (Hollywood) and Industries (Film). Are there any similar words other than Film industry. RV Hi
just like bollywood (the Bombay Film industry) is part of the dictionary is Lollywood (Lahore) And Tollywood (kalKutta)also part of the dictionary. How about sharing some gyan on this. Words popular because of strange concoction of cities (Hollywood) and Industries (Film). Are there any similar words other than Film industry.
RV

]]> By: Scott Belyea http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/comment-page-1/#comment-23417 Scott Belyea Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:31:48 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/#comment-23417 I came across a construction in a newspaper a while back that bemused me - "a person of size." This referred to being "overweight." I find it an interesting euphemism because all reference to the condition being described has been leached out, and the expression says nothing if taken at face value. I came across a construction in a newspaper a while back that bemused me – “a person of size.”

This referred to being “overweight.” I find it an interesting euphemism because all reference to the condition being described has been leached out, and the expression says nothing if taken at face value.

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