ChycLit: climate change

Monday, January 25, 2010

climate change

Had you told me one year ago that it could rain on January 25, I wouldn't have believed you. Last year at this time, during the infamous OC Transpo strike, I was carpooling with friends and bundled up in three to four layers just so that I could survive the 20-30 minute walk from Constitution Square to the university without freezing my...extremities.

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AnonymousMarch 19, 2010 at 10:53 AM
I would've loved to been at the shopping mall...sooo much fun ! Mom D
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Chick lit [t∫Ik lIt] noun informal 1 literature, more accurately, “genre fiction,” primarily by, for, and about women, notorious for its “hip, stylish female protagonists, usually in their twenties and thirties, in urban settings” and its focus on “their love lives and struggles in business...The books usually feature an airy, irreverent tone...”[1] 2 pun on Chiclets, a candy-coated chewing gum.[1, 2] (chick ME abbrev. of chicken, Am. Slang for young woman; lit abbrev. of literature, from Latin litteratura) [1, 3, 4]

ChycLit [t∫IklIt] noun 1 var. of CHICK LIT 2 literature, more accurately, Chiclet-like blog entries in the life writing tradition (Chyc abbrev. of Ukr. Chychota, surname; lit abbrev. of literature, from Latin litteratura) [3, 4]

[1] “Chick lit,” Wikipedia
[2] The Victory Old-time Candy Store
[3] Gage Canadian Dictionary. Vancouver: Canada Publishing Corporation, 1997.
[4] Canadian Oxford Dictionary. 2nd ed. Don Mills, ON: Oxford UP, 2004.

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