Breferemdum: A Comprehensive List of Media Buzzword Portmanteau for Future EU Referenda.

In light of the "Brexit"—Britain's referendum to leave the European Union—I've concocted a handy go-to reference for all your future portmanteau buzzword needs. Because any profit-turning media organisation has a penchant for portmanteau. Just like celebrity power couples, it doesn't make sense to the senseless hordes unless we take two existing words and smash them together in a cringe-inducing manner.

So the following contains many original "exitisms" for when you just can't find a word short enough for "[insert EU country here]'s proposal to leave the EU." These are organised into The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

The Good: The words that sound great, feel great, and can be just dropped into conversation at your pretentious cocktail parties like you've used them all your life.

- Brexit* - United Kingdom

- Grexit* - Greece

- Czexit* - Czech Republic

- Frexit* - France

- Spexit - Spain

- Nexit - The Netherlands

- Luxit - Luxembourg

- Swexit - Sweden

- Fixit - Finland

- Laxit - Latvia

- Lixit - Lithuania

The Bad: While not tounge-twisters in their own right, these mashups just don't have that great mouthfeel—to borrow wine terminology. The $10-15 bottle so to speak.

- Gexit (pronounced with a soft G) - Germany

- Poxit - Poland

- Dexit* (I feel as if this one has already been coined—Denmark is quite Eurosceptic) - Denmark

- Bexit - Belgium

- Exit (highly original of course) - Estonia

- Auxit - Austria

- Huxit - Hungary

- Roxit (pronounced with a long O) - Romania

- Buxit (pronounced with a short U) - Bulgaria

- Maxit - Malta

- Croxit - Croatia

- Slexit (or Slovaxit) - Slovakia

The Ugly: No, just no... Any journalist that dare to use these should be fired—immediately. Or just go work for Fox News.

- Irexit - Ireland

- Itexit - Italy

- Cyxit - Cyprus

- Porxit - Portugal

*Note these are not original coinages, and as far I am aware have already entered the cheese-filled world of journalistic buzzwordery.

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