{"id":8188,"date":"2017-11-18T10:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T10:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8188"},"modified":"2017-11-18T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T10:46:00","slug":"brexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8188","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Brexity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/remainers-sneering-and-snobbery-must-stop-wlcw3pjnw\">Times<\/a> has discovered a new word being used by younger people in the UK, i.e. &#8220;<em>Brexity<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It turns up in a comment piece by Janice Turner admonishing those outward-looking folk who voted to remain in the EU in that disastrous referendum for continuing to criticise the isolationist Little Englanders who voted to undo 4 decades of European integration and dragging a partly reluctant UK into a more modern era.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Turner&#8217;s piece gives a couple of examples of the usage of &#8220;<em>Brexity<\/em>&#8220;. For instance, concerning places: &#8220;<em>It was this horrible Brexity little town<\/em>&#8220;; and food: &#8220;<em>He ate this disgusting Brexity pasty<\/em>&#8220;. <\/p>\n<p>According to Ms Turner, it denotes something low-grade, provincial, unsophisticated; enjoyed or frequented by the old, the white working class.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8199\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/11\/600px_Brexit_monstrosity.jpg\" alt=\"Brexit Monstrosity float in Manchester\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/11\/600px_Brexit_monstrosity.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/11\/600px_Brexit_monstrosity-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brexit Monstrosity float in Manchester. Image by Robert Mandel courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Commenting on a reference to the Times comment piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fish_in_a_hat\/status\/931815758056837121\">Twitter user Fish in a hat has pointed out<\/a> the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I understand it is now coined freely in youth slang to mean trashy &amp; tawdry. The young have a good eye, but are cruel. <abbr title=\"On the other hand\">OTOH<\/abbr> it is their future that is being trashed &amp; were denied a vote. They have the right to complain. I am sure they will rejoin as soon as they are old enough to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite. Those under 18 have even greater grounds for being upset as they were denied a vote in the referendum, unlike the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scottish_independence_referendum,_2014\">2014 Scottish independence referendum<\/a> when all Scots over 16 years of age were given a say.<\/p>\n<p>Getting rather old and coming from white working class stock, your correspondent hopes his readers won&#8217;t find him and his attitudes too <em>Brexity<\/em>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Times has discovered a new word being used by younger people in the UK, i.e. &#8220;Brexity&#8220;. 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