On Friday 5th September 2009, a new word appeared onpage. It may have done so earlier, but if so I missed it. Noel Gallagher had announced (so runs an account published that day in The Week) that he could longer go on working with his brother Liam: the two brothers were not on speaking terms, and only saw each other onstage . . .
Nonetheless, let us hope that a reconciliation is by now underway or at least onthecards.
Well, if you can have the words 'upstage' and 'ongoing', what is wrong with 'onstage' (or 'upgoing', for that matter) ? 'Underground' and 'underwater', which originated as adverbial or adjectival phrases, became mergeable in the middle ages and the eighteenth century respectively . There is no point in getting upworked about it. I just want to be the first to put the neologism onrecord, that's all.
Onfriday blues
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