{"id":32739,"date":"2017-05-16T19:36:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=32739"},"modified":"2017-05-16T19:37:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:37:51","slug":"flied-me-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=32739","title":{"rendered":"\"Fli??ed me off\""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just asked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrellIssa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DarrellIssa<\/a> abt the Comey news and he flicked me off &#8212; literally gave me the middle finger &#8212; and kept walking. Said nothing<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rachaelmbade\/status\/864608676740554752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sent in with the comment \"Who the hell says 'flicked off' instead of 'flipped off'??\"<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This turns out to be a common question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"<a href=\"https:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20120321133023AAJnL4o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Would you say 'She flipped me off' or 'She flicked me off'?<\/a>\"<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bungie.net\/hi\/Forums\/Post\/66528376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Do you say 'Flip Off' or 'Flick Off'?<\/a>\"<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Which-one-is-correct-flip-or-flick-someone-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Which one is correct: 'flip' or 'flick' someone off?<\/a>\"<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/4h20bb\/i_have_heard_people_say_flipped_me_off_and\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I have heard people say 'flipped me off' and 'flicked me off' when referring to the middle finger. Is the origin regionally based? What is the origin of each? Is one older? One more used (I'm guessing 'flipped off' over 'flicked')?<\/a>\"<\/p>\n<p>Google Books ngrams gives the nod to <em><strong>flipped<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/FlippedFlicked.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/FlippedFlicked.png\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current Google News index has 283 actual results for \"flipped me off\" vs. 23 for \"flicked me off\" (of which 1\u00a0refers to the Darrell Issa incident).<\/p>\n<p>So, \"flip\" is commoner but\u00a0both are Out There.<\/p>\n<p>Another \"<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/001351.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bu?? naked<\/a>\" case &#8212; but like the person who sent the query, I can't recall ever having seen or heard \"flick off\".<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just asked @DarrellIssa abt the Comey news and he flicked me off &#8212; literally gave me the middle finger &#8212; and kept walking. Said nothing &mdash; Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) May 16, 2017 Sent in with the comment \"Who the hell says 'flicked off' instead of 'flipped off'??\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-variation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32740,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32739\/revisions\/32740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}