Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:22 AM -0800 3/4/10, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Mar 4, 2010, at 2:41 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>>
>>One thing from the Olympics I hadn't heard before is the word
>>"podium" used as a verb.  "To podium" means to get a medal, be it
>>gold, silver or bronze.  To say "She podiumed 3 times" means she got
>>3 medals of various kinds for 3 events.
>
>BZ, 2/15/06: Odium against "podium":
>  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002839.html
>
>BZ, 2/7/10: Odium against "podium" revisited:
>  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2101
>notice of:
>
>BZ, 2/7/10, in NYT Magazine: Podium
>  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/magazine/07FOB-onlanguage-t.html
>
>(i believe Ben posted notices about these to ADS-L when they came out.)
>
1/23

LH

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