Shot put

[Charles Doyle]

Also in the OED entry for "paraplegic" (!), as an "advanced search" of the dictionary will show.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:05:43 -0500
>From: Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Shot put
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>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 American 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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