Coinages (part three)

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     A few more "coined the word/phrase/expression" stuff.  I've looked in
Dow Jones, Nexis, and ProQuest....I'm cold!  And my "in the footsteps of
Donald Lance" Portugal tour isn't until the end of February!

5 March 1986, UPI--(Pittsburgh Pirates announcer Bob--ed.) Prince began his
career in 1948, working with Rosey Rowsell on Pirate radio broadcasts.  Known
as "The Gunner" for his rapid-fire delivery, Prince also coined several words
to describe the game.  "A bug on the rug" was a loose ball on artificial
turf, while "getting out the hoover" was a request for a double play and
"kiss it good-bye" was his call of a home run.  "By a gnat's eyelash" and
"closer than fuzz on a tick's ear" were Prince descriptions of a tight play
at first base.  Prince started using the phrase "green weenie" to hex the
opposition.

26 June 1989, ADVERTISING AGE, pg. 20--Twenty years ago, in June 1969, we
coined the word "positioning" (Jack Trout and Al Ries in the articles "The
Positioning Era"--ed.) to describe a new approach to advertising.  Since
then, positioning has become the biggest buzz word in advertising and
marketing circles.

21 October 1990, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Sunday review, pg. 5--Wes (Scoop)
Nisker, the Bay Area commentator who coined the phrase "If you don't like the
news, go out and make some of your own"...

4 April 1993, ATLANTA JOURNAL AND CONSTITUTION, Arts, Sect. N, pg. 2--In
"Reggae Bloodlines," still the most comprehensive history of Jamaica's
home-grown folk music, author Stephen Davis observes that "no one knows for
certain where that word (reggae) comes from."  Ricardo Scott--an
Atlanta-based reggae producer who grew up in the housing projects Bob Marley
described in song as "the government yard, down in Trenchtown"--says he
knows.  He coined the word.  "It came from a street word, streggae, which all
the guys in the area used to describe a promiscuous girl," says Mr. Scott, a
46-year-old medical and legal consultant also known as Ras Cardo.  "I just
took off the 'st' part and used that as an abbreviation for street (music)."

11 January 1998, BERGEN RECORD (NJ), pg. S09--Steve Mariucci is a "Yuper,"
and proud of it, a native of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where everyone
talks with that quasi-Canadian inflection.  "Ty Detmer coined that phrase,"
said the former Green Bay quarterbacks coach about one of his former pupils.
"He said you can take the boy out of the UP but you can't take the Yuper out
of the boy."

28 August 1999, DAILY NEWS (NY), pg. 56--Bill Parcells, a veteran of 10
Jets-Giants preseason games, doesn't subscribe to the "braggin' rights"
theme.  No disrespect to the late Weeb Ewbank, who coined the phrase when the
series began 31 summers ago, but "there's no such thing as braggin' rights,"
Parcells said.