Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Mar 4, 2010, at 2:41 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>
> One thing from the Olympics I hadn't heard before is the word
> "podium" used as a verb.  "To podium" means to get a medal, be it
> gold, silver or bronze.  To say "She podiumed 3 times" means she got
> 3 medals of various kinds for 3 events.

BZ, 2/15/06: Odium against “podium”:
  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002839.html

BZ, 2/7/10: Odium against “podium” revisited:
  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2101
notice of:

BZ, 2/7/10, in NYT Magazine: Podium
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/magazine/07FOB-onlanguage-t.html

(i believe Ben posted notices about these to ADS-L when they came out.)

arnold

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