http://negroplease.vox.com/library/posts/tags/ugly+betty/page/1/ rumor has it, a blogger once lived here. en Vox Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:38:17 -0800 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ugly betty http://negroplease.vox.com/library/post/speakeasy-big-ups-to-big-up.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Jason) http://negroplease.vox.com/library/post/speakeasy-big-ups-to-big-up.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://negroplease.vox.com/library/post/speakeasy-big-ups-to-big-up.html?_c=feed-rss-full Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:38:17 -0800 <blockquote><p> Note that Jaime Pressly said that “Ugly Betty” was “<em>big-upping</em> the ugly fat girl,” not that the show was “<em>bigging up </em>the ugly fat girl” (or “<em>bigging</em> the ugly fat girl<em> up</em>“). So we find that <em>big-up</em> is being treated as a single entity that can be inflected with verb endings, rather than as the verb <em>big</em> plus the particle <em>up</em>.<br /></p></blockquote><p>- &quot;<a href="http://blog.oup.com/2008/01/big-up/">Big-Up&quot; on the Rise</a> by Ben Zimmer, OUPblog, 01.24.08</p><p>I&#39;m sure my first awareness of &quot;Big-Up&quot; was Biggie Smalls giving &quot;Big-Ups to Brooklyn&quot;. Given his Caribbean roots that all makes sense.<br /> </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://negroplease.vox.com/library/post/speakeasy-big-ups-to-big-up.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c10e0f6f1fd3b400e398d733f30004?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> words speakeasy jaime pressly ugly betty ben zimmer oupblog big-up