Talk:ixnay

Etymology?

I see someone removed the etymology for this word. I'm putting it back in until/unless someone can give a good reason why it should be left out. --Superluser 05:03, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Usage

Is it worth nothing that this is a US English thing? It's never used in the UK and I'm pretty sure they don't say it in Australia, New Zealand or South Africa 92.237.144.148 13:16, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I personally haven't heard it in the UK either. Might be known in Canada too? Equinox ◑ 13:19, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

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It was kind of 1940s slang, only used rather facetiously and consciously semi-archaically now. I bet that avid cinema-goers in the U.K. in the 1940s would have been familiar with it (even if they never said it themselves). AnonMoos 05:01, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

ixnayish

So what is an "Ixnayish hand-signal"? -- 02:37, 1 April 2015 QuentinUK

One conveying a negative meaning? AnonMoos (talk) 06:20, 24 June 2019 (UTC)