WOTY nomination

[Mark Mandel]

I see ambiguity (of reference), but homonymy?
Mark Mandel


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> At 3:06 PM -0600 2/28/09, Dennis Baron wrote:
>>shovel-ready: a word which sounds more like it refers to a stiff than
>>a project.
>
> A point I brought up when we were discussing "shovel-ready" at the
> San Francisco meeting in January. Â But I don't think the awkward
> homonymy lost it too many votes; it just hadn't gained its traction
> yet.

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