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A bit Marmite: the jar that became an adjective

A bit Marmite: the jar that became an adjective

To call something 'a bit Marmite' is now official: the OED lists Marmite as an adjective for anything that splits people into love-it and hate-it camps, and it dates the metaphor to 1994, two years before the famous advert everyone credits.

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The Marmasaurus Dictionary

Marmite has launched the ' Marmasaurus ', the definitive guide to all Marmite-related terminology, downloadable as an e-book for free. The Marmasaurus covers the words used by Marmite lovers when describing their yeasty joys.

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On the origins of the word Marmite

From www.nakedtranslations.com [site appears to be dead] We were looking at the menu of a very nice London restaurant on Saturday when one of my co-lunchers exclaimed: "Monkfish tail "en marmite"??! Whaaaat? Fish in Marmite?" Tut tut. Those Engleesh. I reassured my friend: "Of course not.

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