stance?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/8/2008 06:52 PM, sagehen wrote:
>Heard just now on NPR's Olympics report:  Some one's or some team's "stance"
>as No. 1.  This sounds a bit off to me. I'm not sure why.  I would expect
>"standing" as being more other-related.  Stance sounds very self-contained.
>[Probably I'm just getting a bit crotchety in my geriatric state!]

Perhaps it's an "in your face, we're Number 1" posture ...

Joel

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