{"id":12716,"date":"2010-01-26T10:35:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/01\/26\/ixnay.html"},"modified":"2010-01-26T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:35:04","slug":"ixnay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/01\/26\/ixnay\/","title":{"rendered":"ixnay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other morning, as I was waking up, it occurred to me that I pretty much never hear the word \"nix,\" but I do occasionally hear the Pig Latin word \"ixnay.\" Usually in the construction \"ixnay on the [something in Pig Latin].\" Like: \"ixnay on the alkingtay.\"<\/p>\n<p>I wondered whether \"ixnay\" is becoming an English word in its own right. Although come to think of it, I don't think I often encounter it in a non-Pig Latin context (like *\"ixnay on the talking\"), which seems to suggest it's not widely considered valid English.<\/p>\n<p>And then I wondered whether people do still use \"ixnay,\" or whether I've just seen it so much in older books that I think of it as common.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I made a mental note to write an entry about this at some point, and then forgot about it.<\/p>\n<p>And then a couple hours later, I came across the then-latest strip of the webcomic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darthsanddroids.net\/episodes\/0363.html\">Darths &amp; Droids<\/a>, which used the \"ixnay\" construction.<\/p>\n<p>And the strip's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irregularwebcomic.net\/draakslair\/viewtopic.php?t=4417\">forum topic<\/a> included some discussion of exactly my questions. And several of the commenters there said they've been known to use \"nix\" sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Also, MW11 doesn't list \"ixnay\" as a valid English word.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, partly I'm posting 'cause I think it's an interesting topic, but partly just because I was amused by the coincidence.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other morning, as I was waking up, it occurred to me that I pretty much never hear the word &#8220;nix,&#8221; but I do occasionally hear the Pig Latin word&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slang","category-specific-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}