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<div>A column appearing in the on-line Modern Humorist immediately
after The Phone Call from Gore to Bush in the wee hours post-election
is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek re-creation of this Great Moment in
American Political History:</div>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">"On Second
Thought: Al Gore's Un-concession"</font></div>
<div><font face="Times"
color="#000000">http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0011/cal<span
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<div>This column, posted on 11/8/00 or 11/9/00 at the latest,
provides what appears to be the first use of this word in print, and
if e-print doesn't count, the Times' Week in Review column last
Sunday (12/17/00) by Jenny Lyn Bader, "Finally, Nap Time in
America", refers to "Mr. Bush's snippy response during the
3:45 a.m. un-concession". There are only a few other hits
on "unconcession" or "un-concession" on
google.com or Nexis, if we eliminate the irrelevant ones involving
"U.N. concessions" or the French NP "un
concession", and they all refer to the Gore phone call. So
I nominate this word (preferably without the hyphen, to promote its
lexical legitimacy) for the Brand-Spanking-New category in the WOTY
vote.</div>
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<div>larry </div>
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