Shot put
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Nov 29 20:05:43 UTC 2006
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Charles Doyle wrote:
> Anyhow, I am astonished to discover that the OED omits any record of the
> term "shot put"--even in its "correct" application to the athletic
> activity, which has been an Olympic event from the beginning of the
> modern games in 1896. Are the English still miffed that the Americans
> triumphed in the shot put that year (and in most subsequent Olympic
> Games)?
Curiously, "shot put" is mentioned in the OED's definition of
"pentathlon."
Fred Shapiro
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