"You Brexit, you bought it"
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Roni Stern, "If you Brexit — You Bought it", Finance Magnates 4/20/2016. Also, Annie Laurie, "Brexit? I hardly even touched it!", Balloon Juice 6/25/2016. And many tweets, e.g.
Remember @BorisJohnson: you #Brexit, you bought it pic.twitter.com/xjo5S9nBv1
— Dexit Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) June 25, 2016
Other humorous responses include a New Yorker cover:
Next week's New Yorker cover is Pythons updated, post-Brexit: pic.twitter.com/qqcdcW6Cdv
— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) June 24, 2016
And this future news story:
Thousands Of British Refugees Make Dangerous Journey Across The Irish Sea
Levantine said,
June 25, 2016 @ 3:22 pm
A little off-topic, but I wanted to follow up on the earlier post on how people say 'Brexit'. Based on what I've heard over the past week on the BBC, the -gz- pronunciation is not uncommon on this side of the pond either. It sounds fine to my ears, but 'Grexit' said in this way doesn't, probably because of the K in 'Greek'.
Theophylact said,
June 25, 2016 @ 5:06 pm
Funny I never thought about "egzit", but it's what makes possible the pun about "putting all one's Basques in one exit".
unknownsoldier said,
June 25, 2016 @ 5:53 pm
I was thinking "Borxit" . . .
thunk said,
June 25, 2016 @ 7:28 pm
Seen on the #xkcd irc channel: "You Brexit, EU Fix It"
Jongseong Park said,
June 26, 2016 @ 2:53 am
@Levantine, in the pronunciation preference polls included in the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary's entry for "exit", a 1988 poll on BrE speakers had a 55% preference for ˈeks- and 45% for ˈeɡz-. A 1993 poll on AmE speakers found 48% for ˈeks- and 52% for ˈeɡz-. A pretty even split on both sides of the pond, I would say.
Geoff Nunberg said,
June 26, 2016 @ 3:26 am
The news story Mark linked too also contributed "brefugees." A swelling number of these formations—writing this from France, where the Front national is calling for "frexit." I've no doubt Ben Z is already on these for a forthcoming WSJ column on what the Guardian has called the "brexicon."
[(myl) And let's not forget some of the other contributions from Grexicography, such as Graccident, Gredge, and Grexhaustion. Certainly #Brexhaustion is likely to become widespread before the snow flies.]
Ngamudji said,
June 26, 2016 @ 7:29 am
Not to mention Departugal, Czech-out and Finish.
Jenny Chu said,
June 27, 2016 @ 12:14 am
Are Brefugees Brits living abroad who are forced to flee the EU and return to UK? Or are they non-British EU citizens forced to flee UK and return to EU? Or both?