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nothing could possibly have prepared me to read those words on wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ussy

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[–] gigachad@feddit.de 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Michael Dow, a linguist at the Université de Montréal, wrote an article analyzing different uses of the suffix, such as the merging of "Margaret Thatcher" with "-ussy" to create the portmanteau Thatchussy.

Ok Michael

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 years ago

Why, I have a PhD in linguistics and several years of research in the field, yes. You might know my groundbreaking work, my opus major, about the thatchussy.

[–] Furball@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reagan wanted some of that Thatchussy 😏

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago

Margaret Snatcher works so much better.

-ussy is a terrible suffix for portmanteaus.