Mark Etherton’s comment on Geoff Pullum’s “Isms, gasms, etc.” posting gives a wonderful quote from Balzac’s Le père Goriot (1834-35) about play with the libfix -orama. Etherton’s summary: the characters come up with santérama, froitorama, soupeaurama (to which Madame Vauquer says “Pardonnez−moi, monsieur, c’est une soupe aux choux”), Goriorama [based on Goriot, of course], cornorama, … Continue reading -orama-orama