The sources of the PDE lexicon: analyzing specific varieties
On Thursday, small groups of you will consider data from specific varieties (advertising: pest control, cleaning products; medicine: prescription drugs; slang). Does your variety rely on loanwords? word-formation (affixation, compounding, blending)? word creation? You might want to consider how the sources of your variety relate to its functions. (And, yes, it’s a bit silly to analyze products without a sense of their visual content and design). We’ll be revisiting some of this data next week when we talk about semantics.
(I hope I’ve transcribed things correctly. There are a few I’ve left out because I’m not sure, but you’ll be getting a xerox of the slang sheet ..)
Insect Control Weed Control Cleaning Products Prescription Drugs Slang
INSECT KILLER
GrubOut
Vegetable Garden Insecticide
Rose & Flower Insecticide
Floraguard Insecticide
Insecticidal Soap
Gardal Rose, Flower, & Evergreen Dust
Liquid Sevin
CritterRidder
Bug-B-Gon Liquid Concentrate
Hose Spray Malathion
Malathion Insecticide
Real-kill
Deritox organic insecticide
Earwig Destroyer
Maggot Killer Diazinon
Hose Spray Diazinon
End.All
Miticide
Onion Maggot Control
Bugban-C Ant Killer Dust
Cygon 2E systemic insecticide
Bug killer
PTV Insecticide and Fungicide
Dio Bug & Slug Killer
Liquid Fruit Tree Spray
Slug Bait Pellets
Slug & Snail Bait
Slug Pellets
Sug & Snail Domestic Killer Bait
The PIT: Slug & Snail trap
Chemfree Insectigone
Vapona
Raid:
Fumigator,
House & garden
Crawling insect bug killer;
Flying insect bug killer;
Wasp & hornet;
Garden outdoor bug killer;
Ant, Roach, & Earwig Killer;
Ant Bait traps
Impact: roach killing system
Creepy Crawly
Bug-X
Company names include:
Raid, Green Cross, Wilson, Chemfree, Later’s, Safer’s, green earth, King, C-I-L
EcoClear
Topgun Weed Killer
WipeOut
Total WipeOut
RoundUp
WeedEx
Killex
WeedOut
Funginex
Crabex
Three way weed control
WeedRite
Defender Garden Fungicide
PineSol
Mr Clean
Lysol
Fantastik
Bi-O-Kleen
Ecover natural degreaser
Mist-Away (shower cleaner)
soft scrub
citrasolv
Comet
Ajax
Arm & Hammer
Vim
Tilex
Bano
Swiffer
Bounty
Future
Wisk
Purex
Borax
zout
Calgonite
Palmolive
Sunlight
Fairy liquid
Morning Fresh
scrub—free
goof-off
Easy-Off
Oust
Windex
See Spray
febreeze
Dryel
Fleecy
Downy
Snuggle
PC Fabric Softener
Bleach
Javex
Javex 2
Clorox Bleach
Shout
Spray’n’Wash
Laundry soil and stain remover
Tide
Sunlight
Laundry Detergent
Arm & Hammer
Ivory
Cheer
Zero
Fine Fabric Wash
Cotton Care
Catch It (to sift cat litter box)
Benillyn
Triaminic
Immobilon (elephant tranquillizer)
Polysporin
Lamisil
Flovent
Airomir
Gravol
Chloraseptic
Nō Dōz
Drysol
Novasen (by Novapharm!)
Novo-atenol
Advil
Pepto-Bismol
Claritin
Nicoderm
Zincofax
Ginsana
Lactaid
Pepcid
Motrin
Lubriderm
Skintastic
Coppertone
Beconase
Amoxicil
Biaxin Clarithromycin
Fluonase
Midol
Tylenol
Advil
Sinutab
Immodium
Ombrelle
Visine
Corfate
Nyquil
Dayquil
Apofolic
Atrovent
Cozaar
Coumadin
Losee (?)
Lovastatin
Nitro Patch
Ranitidine
Vasotee
Vioxx
Zantec
Reactine
Allegra
Seldane
Claritin
Benedril
Visine
Beano
Gas-x
Nicoderm
Broncoturboinhaler (?!)
Tylenol
Hismonal
Halls Toplexil
Solugel
Panoxyl
Anti-Itch
Paxil
Zoloft
Sulpha
Ceclor (?)
Mefenamic (?)
Novahistex
Novomin (anti-nausea drug)
Celebrex
Demerol
Voltarin
Codeine
Morphine
Biaxin
Welbutrin
Paxil
Nasacort
Celestoderm
Flonase
Augmentin potassium tabs
Bactroban cream
Aspirin
Vaseline
Beclovent (inhalers)
Flovent
Atrovent (nasal spray)
SLANG includes
cammo (camouflage)
dope (drugs)
hype (cool, awesome)
one (one love, can be used as a greeting)
sick ill (good) [CP: I don’t think I transcribed this right]
dope
mad (very) “that’s mad dope”
wack (bad)
screwed up
messed
mingin’ disgusting (Birmingham, UK)
pull, on the pull to “pick up” somebody
smashed, shattered,
knackered exhausted
sketchpad someone who is paranoid from too much drug use
bomb good
messy very drunk
maga skinny
wanker idiot (UK, Australia)
digge’
cubbe’ friend (Aus.) [not sure I transcribed this right]
hiddy ridic hideously ridiculous
disrespect (verb)
mackin’ on to make a pass at someone
D’oh oops
“My bad” mistake