Some combine more than one process - “the isodesk” (or is that “the isobar”) is where many of us are currently spending our days. Even rhyming slang has made a bit of a comeback with Miley Cyrus lending her name to the virus (already end-clipped to “the Miley”).
Plenty of nouns have been “verbed” too - the toilet paper/pasta/tinned tomatoes have been “magpied”. In these times of COVID-19, there are the usual suspects: shortenings like “sanny” (hand sanitizer) and “iso” (isolation), abbreviations like BCV (before corona virus) and WFH (working from home), also compounds “corona moaner” (the whingers) and “zoombombing” (the intrusion into a video conference). The word was subsequently taken up in British and American English. New slang enables us to face our fears head-on - just as when the Parisians began calling a late-18th century influenza “ la grippe” to reflect the “seizing” effect it had on people. Remedies may be found in language’s abilities to translate sores into plasters, to paraphrase William Gouge’s 1631 sermon on the plague. It’s one thing to feel “crook”, but it’s another thing again to feel as “crook as Rookwood” (a cemetery in Sydney) or to have a “wog” (synonymous with “bug”, likely from “pollywog”, and unrelated to the ethnic slur “wog”).
Wherever we’re facing the possibility of being “dicky” or “Tom (and) Dick” (rhyming slang for “sick”), we take comfort in language play. The 1930s Depression gave us playful reduplications based on Australian landmarks and towns – “ain’t no work in Bourke” “everything’s wrong at Wollongong” “things are crook at Tallarook”. In the past, hard times birthed playful rhymes.
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