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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread lit-to-lexicon #61934 03/21/2002 9:38 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US slithy toves enthusiast slithy toves enthusiast Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US Lilliputian, brobdingnagian, yahoo; newspeak, big brother; catch-22; shangri-la; malaprop: All these words originated in literary works but have taken on a life of their own. What are some other examples of this phenomenon? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lit-to-lexicon #61935 03/21/2002 10:26 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA If you include mythology in literature, then Procrustian, Myrmidon, Gordian Knot, ambrosia, and numerous others. jabberwocky (from poem of same name) robot (from R.U.R., or possibly from karel's brother joseph) xanadu (did Coleridge coin this or was that really a place?) sour grapes, and many other phrases I can think of at the moment (aesop) k Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lit-to-lexicon #61936 03/22/2002 1:01 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Man Friday,sea change, grinch, I got lazy and found a site about Shakespeare, in WorldWideWords.com http://www.quinion.com/words/reviews/shakespeare.htm Here are some I took from another site:http://www.m-w.com/lighter/shak/ShakHome.htm You have to scroll down quite a ways.When you find the words, clicking on them brings up discussion. academe alligator bloodstained hobnob leapfrog lonely mountaineer pander skim milk viewless watchdog xantippe Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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