Flee Fly Flo - 2016 December 31

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SUMMARY</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wrapping up 2016 with words from the past year and some newsy limericks. Bigly and Brexit were on lots of lips this year, as well as an increasingly popular Danish word that means "cozy." Also, Quiz Guy John Chaneski sums up the year in newsy limericks about movies, science, and the Nobel Prize. Finally, an old term takes on new currency: To "gaslight" someone means to make them doubt their own perceptions. This term for malevolent manipulation was by inspired 1944 film about a psychologically abusive husband. Also, Flee Fly Flo, Latinx, woke, alte kacker, boodler, and to be honest with you.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">FULL DETAILS</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Words of the Year for 2016 include</span> <a href= "http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-big-league-or-bigly-2016-10"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bigly, a mishearing</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">of big-league;</span> <a href= "http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/24/fashion/wintering-the-danish-way-learning-about-hygge.html?_r=0"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">hygge, a Danish word</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">that has to do with coziness; and</span> <a href= "http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Brexit, a portmanteau</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">that denotes the exit of Britain from the European Union.</span></p> <p><a href="http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=3225"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Flee Fly Flo</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is a camp song, and like other songs passed along orally, it has lots of variations, and often includes rhythmic hand-clapping. In her book</span> <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Camp-Songs-Folk-Patricia-Averill/dp/1493179128/awawiwo-20"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Camp Songs, Folk Songs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Patricia Averill suggests the roots of this camp favorite may be in s