Have a cow

Created by Unknown User (met6), last modified by Unknown User (jcf10) on Nov 18, 2012

v. To overreact or become upset, especially for no reasonSource: Dictionary of Geneseo English, Spring 1999 - Kocher - 2006As of 2012, 100% of students surveyed know this word. 0% believe it is of local origins.(Flynn, G-M, 2012)Of those surveyed in 2008, 86.4% knew the word, and of those, 0% learned it in Geneseo. Talbot, 2008.

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Many respondents noted that they knew this phrase not necessarily as a common use of speech, but as a signature line of the character Bart Simpson in the television show The Simpsons.

Posted by jcf10 at Nov 20, 2012 22:08

69.7% of people surveyed had heard this word before and agreed with the prior definition. 12.1% of people did not agree with the definition. 18.2% of people had never heard this phrase before. The relevancy of this word was measured on a scale from 1 to 5. 57.6% of people surveyed gave this word a 1 for relevancy. 21.2% of people gave it a two. 9.1% of people gave it a 5. Although this word is well known, it does not seem to be relevant to college-age kids on the Geneseo campus. 

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