web coinage, er, revival

[trochee]

Geoffrey Pullum at Language Log coins revives a great phrase for prescriptivists: which-hunters and semicolonoscopists.

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.

Comments

[q-pheevr.livejournal.com]

Cf. CLS 8.

Further evidence that all the good linguistics puns were made in the early seventies.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

There are comments on Language Log?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

uh, no. I meant the comments to this entry. I've tried to make it clear in the update above.