"Big league" vs. "bigly": a coda

Language Log 2016-10-30

Summary:

After I posted "The history of Trumpian 'big league' (now even bigger league!)" on Sunday, there was a flurry of media coverage on the hotly contested question of whether Donald Trump says big league or bigly. A sampling: "So, Which Is It: Bigly Or Big-League? Linguists Take On A Common Trumpism" (NPR, 10/23/16) "Yes, Trump […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29091

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language and politics

Authors:

Ben Zimmer

Date tagged:

10/30/2016, 23:32

Date published:

10/28/2016, 11:05