Colleen Mastony, “Blagojeviching” (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 14, 2008)
Ben Zimmer, a lexicographer, said use of “Blagojeviched” is unlikely to spread beyond Illinois. “It’s simply too hard to say,” Zimmer said. In Chicago, however, we might just have a new term in our political vocabulary. One local blogger last week used the B-word three times in one sentence, writing: “I’m so blagojeviching blagojevich about Blagojevich.”
Read the rest here. (Related Word Routes column)