http://blog.oup.com/2010/07/ectomies/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 22 May 2013 20:11:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2010/07/ectomies/#comment-167359 Vocabulinks - Schott's Vocab Blog - NYTimes.com Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:01:21 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=10089#comment-167359 [...] OUP Blog Mark Peters delighted in the lexicographical possibilities of the suffix “ectomy”: “I’m not the first to notice an ectomy-palooza. World Wide Words creator Michael Quinion has noted parentectomy and humorectomy, while Stanford University linguist Arnold Zwicky has commented on a Snickers ad’s use of hungerectomy. There are ever-more ectomies being coined every day, words far less serious than well-known surgeries such as the appendectomy, mastecomy, and vasectomy, and the many medical terms I’ve (luckily) never heard of, such as the OED-recorded myomectomy, strumectomy, and duodenectomy. Since May, I’ve been grabbing examples from Twitter to get a sense of the suffix’s range. You don’t need a doctorate in suffixology to see that just about anything – even a coyote – can be ectomied these days, in the no-holds-barred world of what Michael Adams calls ‘unorthodox lexifabricology.’” [...] [...] OUP Blog Mark Peters delighted in the lexicographical possibilities of the suffix “ectomy”: “I’m not the first to notice an ectomy-palooza. World Wide Words creator Michael Quinion has noted parentectomy and humorectomy, while Stanford University linguist Arnold Zwicky has commented on a Snickers ad’s use of hungerectomy. There are ever-more ectomies being coined every day, words far less serious than well-known surgeries such as the appendectomy, mastecomy, and vasectomy, and the many medical terms I’ve (luckily) never heard of, such as the OED-recorded myomectomy, strumectomy, and duodenectomy. Since May, I’ve been grabbing examples from Twitter to get a sense of the suffix’s range. You don’t need a doctorate in suffixology to see that just about anything – even a coyote – can be ectomied these days, in the no-holds-barred world of what Michael Adams calls ‘unorthodox lexifabricology.’” [...]

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]]> http://blog.oup.com/2010/07/ectomies/#comment-166938 Tweets that mention OUPblog » Blog Archive » Bouncy-ball-ectomies, God complex-ectomies and Other Suffix Surgeries -- Topsy.com Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:20:23 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=10089#comment-166938 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Lauren, Angela Blossom. Angela Blossom said: Bouncy-ball-ectomies, God complex-ectomies and Other Suffix Surgeries: OUPblog (blog)Because of the security/priva... http://bit.ly/a0cIsI [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Lauren, Angela Blossom. Angela Blossom said: Bouncy-ball-ectomies, God complex-ectomies and Other Suffix Surgeries: OUPblog (blog)Because of the security/priva… http://bit.ly/a0cIsI [...]

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