Olympic-y

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 2/12/06, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> "I wasn't thinking straight," White told Finch before jumping on a
> chair lift for his second qualifying run. "I got all Olympic-y. I got
> that out of the way."
> http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/torino2006/snowboarding/news?slug=bw-white021206
> -----

Now the subject of a Language Log post:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002831.html


--Ben Zimmer

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