WOTY nomination

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:06 PM -0600 2/28/09, Dennis Baron wrote:
>shovel-ready: a word which sounds more like it refers to a stiff than
>a project.

A point I brought up when we were discussing "shovel-ready" at the
San Francisco meeting in January.  But I don't think the awkward
homonymy lost it too many votes; it just hadn't gained its traction
yet.

LH

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>On Feb 28, 2009, at 3:03 PM, James A. Landau wrote:
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>>I know it's early, but I have a nomination already: "shovel-ready".
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