WOTY, brand-new division: UNCONCESSION

[Laurence Horn]

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:

"On Second Thought:  Al Gore's Un-concession"
http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0011/call/

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.

larry


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