http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/drag/ A blog mostly about language Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/drag/#comment-21435 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:17:58 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1840#comment-21435 [...] X drag (link) [...]

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/drag/#comment-18910 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:30:39 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1840#comment-18910 [...] Compounds in the other order — X drag — are treated in my earlier “Drag” posting, here. [...]

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/drag/#comment-1743 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:01:20 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1840#comment-1743 [...] has been mounting; X drag and X magnet are the ones I’ve posted about most recently (here and here). X Nazi came up on Language Log back in 2004, in a brief posting by Mark Liberman, [...]

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/drag/#comment-1716 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:46:40 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1840#comment-1716 I believe drag is Polari in origin. Most sources that I’ve read (and kinda sorta hazily remember as I write this) say that it meant a costume with heavy symbolism or meaning. I’d be interested to re-read some of those sources (and primary sources if I could get my hands on ‘em) to see if the sense of “double-ness” and being in on the punch line were there from the very start or only added on when Polari started being used as gay street slang in the early 20th century.

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/drag/#comment-1674 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:42:13 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1840#comment-1674 Surprisingly few webhits for “wolf in sheep drag”.

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