Moneygeddon
English
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Etymology
[edit]Coined by Danielle Ward and a public-relations think-tank for the first episode of the first series of Newswipe with Charlie Brooker, first televised on Wednesday 25 March in 2009 on BBC Four: money + -geddon, from Armageddon (“the end of the world”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mŭ'nēgĕʹdən, IPA(key): /ˌmʌniːˈɡɛdən/
Proper noun
[edit]Moneygeddon
- (often humorous, neologism) The late-2000s world economic recession.
- 2009: “Graham Thurlwell”, alt.tv.farscape (Google group): Crisis – what crisis?, the 22nd day of May at 9:55pm
- Meanwhile, The Minister For Women and Equality is busy banging on about how there aren’t enough women in the City and HMG should force companies to hire more women at the highest level because women wouldn’t have brought about Moneygeddon – no, honest they wouldn’t.
- 2009: “Graham Thurlwell”, alt.tv.farscape (Google group): Crisis – what crisis?, the 22nd day of May at 9:55pm
References
[edit]- “Moneygeddon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225