web coinage, er, revival
Nov. 29th, 2004 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trocheeGeoffrey Pullum at Language Log coins revives a great phrase for prescriptivists: which-hunters and semicolonoscopists.
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q_pheevr points out in the comments here that at least which-hunters is not original. I'm would have bet semicolonoscopy is original, but Google suggests it's not lexically unique to Pullum.
update:
q_pheevr points out in the comments here that at least which-hunters is not original. I'm would have bet semicolonoscopy is original, but Google suggests it's not lexically unique to Pullum.
