brexit

Three months later, Peter Wilding coined ‘Brexit’, describing it as ‘another sad word’, in a think-tank article.

How Brexit changed the English language Christine Ro 2023

On 15 May 2012, he published an article on a European blog platform, in which he argued that if Britain’s leaders did not set out a positive vision for membership, “then the portmanteau for Greek euro exit might be followed by another sad word, Brexit.”

From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them Steven Poole 2020