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Geoff sent me a link to this virtual linguist site, which I think is pretty cool. However, from it, I was interested in this UK usage of whinge-o-rama. I haven't heard it before. Have any of you?
 
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Nope


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
 
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No. I have seen the '-orama' formation used fairly often, though. As the blog entry indicates that sort of construction is mainly used in nonce words.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
 
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Well it was your own Boris Johnson who used the word.
 
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I saw that but old Boris is a Buffoon of the first order.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
 
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Much like our new president...

Speaking of which, this is pretty funny.
 
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