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What I find most impressive is that when you google dangleway it is used by mainstream sites such as Alamy which has 26 stock photos under that heading.
As it appears in the on-line urban dictionary it might not take it too long to appear in a mainstream one.
You also appear a few times in the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms so your contribution to the English Language is well in excess of 99.99% of us.
Keep up the good work.
kerspatula | 16.06.21 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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I would struggle to tell you the real name for the dangleway, your only competition is “the cable car” which is much less fun.
The line’s frequent gimmicks actually help expand use. Because PRs writing articles about the latest wheeze need synonyms for cable car to make the text non-repetitive.
TomH | 16.06.21 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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“Dangleway” does appear in the online version of the 4th edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (2020), and presumably in the print version too. It is in the citation for “and no mistake”, not under its own definition. One day.
Andrew | 16.06.21 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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Dangleway is so fetch
peng | 16.06.21 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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I am amused that Emirates has been associated with two items of aerial machinery that have been ultimately less successful than originally expected. The dangleway is one, the Airbus A380 is the other.
Emirates are in danger of the hat trick in this regard, in their intended procurement of the Boeing 777X (initial availability is very delayed )
MilesT | 16.06.21 - 8:13 a.m. | #
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I suspect your success in adding to the shared culture was also helped by the Major's accidentally on purpose getting stuck dangling from a zip wire a year later in Victoria Park.
It's a shame boondangle is not a word.
JonF | 16.06.21 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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DG certainly summed up the cable car to nowhere. Dangleway is such a fun word.
What also stands out from this post is Boris like Trump, also so amusing when you read about them or see them on TV, but not so funny if you live in the same country.
Michael | 16.06.21 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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Always found it a bit wanky tbqh
Bermo | 16.06.21 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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Hoping to one day see it as the Countdown Conundrum
MKIAN | 16.06.21 - 9:13 a.m. | #
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Briefly convinced myself a number of years ago that I had invented the word 'debendification' but looking back online I'm fairly sure the word's existence predates my use of it.
Nico Hogg | 16.06.21 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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Unfortunately, anyone reading the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms quote mentioned above in isolation is going to assume that the Diamond Geezer blog is a leading source of irony-free Bolx.
James | 16.06.21 - 9:41 a.m. | #
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Cue for Google search: 17,200 results!!
Betterbee | 16.06.21 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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Congrats, Sir!
I tried to do my bit in support and have slipped the word into every possible conversation remotely on the topic or area.
commonliner | 16.06.21 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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Bolx must be quickly adopted also.
scrumpy | 16.06.21 - 9:58 a.m. | #
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A great word - one to be proud of! Unfortunately, demeaning epithets seem to be me meat and drink to the current PM, and seem to burnish, rather than tarnish his reputation.
cau1khead | 16.06.21 - 10:46 a.m. | #
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I'm quite excited to discover that my mum's knee is in the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.06.21 - 11:18 a.m. | #
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I hope that Bolx is the next piece of internationally adopted lexicon.
R2 | 16.06.21 - 11:33 a.m. | #
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While I like your name the Dangleway, the twice we've used it we called it between ourselves the chairlift, and that is what it is.
Andrew | Homepage | 16.06.21 - 1:22 p.m. | #
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Yes, ever since you coined the term I have used it in posts on the inter-web and in general conversation and no-one has ever queried it.
It is so apt and obvious.
Chris | 16.06.21 - 3:13 p.m. | #
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boondangleway
Harry Harrison | 16.06.21 - 5:38 p.m. | #
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It's the only word I ever use for it, thanks to you!!
"If christening his project 'dangleway' has tarnished its branded gloss, that's reward enough."
I'm with you there!
Cornish Cockney | 16.06.21 - 6:21 p.m. | #
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Whilst working in Tower Hamlets Council I coined the phrase "Slap Dash House" after the windows started to fall out just after it opened.
Andrew Jarman | 17.06.21 - 7:49 a.m. | #
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Now 17,600 Google search results for dangleway, up 400 since yesterday (and 290,000 for Bolx, apparently a tissue-equivalent flexible build up material).
Betterbee | 17.06.21 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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I thought dangleway was the proper name, never have used anything else. The German translation would be "Baumelbahn".
HansG | 17.06.21 - 1:32 p.m. | #
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> Have you ever created anything that's entered the shared culture of the nation?
I invented #bbcqt. I prefer yours though.
Josh | 17.06.21 - 7:46 p.m. | #
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