# Ixnay on the iglatinpay **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 20, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ixnay-on-the-iglatinpay/322566 "2005-09-20T17:40:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ixnay-on-the-iglatinpay/322566/21 "2005-09-21T02:33:17Z")
You’re probably too young to remember the 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns, and the popular bumper stickers and pins that read: “NIX ON NIXON.” It might have been used in 1960 as well. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ixnay-on-the-iglatinpay/322566/22 "2005-09-21T02:44:19Z")
Don’t forget the Offspring album Ixnay on the Hombre. Now, why they called it Ixnay on the Hombre I have no idea, but at least it’s got some good songs on it. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ixnay-on-the-iglatinpay/322566/23 "2005-09-21T03:48:18Z")
Sorry samclem. I posted too quickly. I never would have thought that “nix” was that early. I’ve never seen it in any 19th century books. ---
**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ixnay-on-the-iglatinpay/322566/24 "2005-09-21T04:17:32Z")
“Nit Not Nay No NIX!” Spoken by my father on occasion, to the three offspring… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ixnay-on-the-iglatinpay/322566/25 "2005-09-21T11:41:00Z")
> [@Sal Ammoniac](#): > > Good one. What’s cool is that there’s a bit of preserved '50’s slang in both “amscray” and “ixnay.” Linguistic flies in the amber. Elegantly put, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ixnay-on-the-iglatinpay/322566/26 "2005-09-21T12:24:18Z")
I’m just a girl who can’t say no. I’m in a terrible fix. I always say ‘Come on, let’s go,’ just when I oughta say ‘Nix.’ - Annie, _Oklahoma_ ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ixnay-on-the-iglatinpay/322566/27 "2005-09-21T12:47:51Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > No, not really. Scram goes back much further, and “amscray” is cited from at least 1934. I only meant that “scram” was a typical piece of '50’s slang that later went into decline. I think of it as being sort of characteristic of the '50s, not unique to the '50s. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ixnay-on-the-iglatinpay/322566/28 "2005-09-21T13:42:18Z")
> [@Sal Ammoniac](#): > > I only meant that “scram” was a typical piece of '50’s slang that later went into decline. I think of it as being sort of characteristic of the '50s, not unique to the '50s. But that’s the thing: “Scram” is actually 1930’s slang that was already starting it’s decline in the middle 1950’s. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ixnay-on-the-iglatinpay/322566/29 "2005-09-21T14:36:40Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Just out of curiousity, did you see **Who Framed Roger Rabbit** or **Young Frankenstein**? If so, were you confused by the use of “ixnay”? Or did you simply ignore it or let it pass as a reference you didn’t get? Don’t forget Barnie Rubble’s subtle warnings to Fred every time Wilma was standing behind him as he made some incriminating remark, “Ixnay! Ixnay!” I still use that line 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ixnay-on-the-iglatinpay/322566.md?page=1)