Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Shellacking

Yep. The Republicans are dancing and feeling epicaricactic (we really do need an adjective for that concept. Neither "epicaricacy" or "Schadenfreude" have one.)

I will give up politics now for awhile. The other side won, but the tide will turn back again. No worries on that.

So...where did the word "shellacking" come from? Interestingly, when looking it up in the OED, it is chiefly U.S. Don't they use it in England? In the OED it was first cited as meaning a "beating" in 1931. I wonder if eventually this citation of "shellacking" will be included in the OED.

2 comments:

arnie said...

DC Blog gives more on this.

arnie said...

Odd. That link I posted doesn't seem to be clickable. Anyway, it's http://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2010/11/on-shellacking.html