nom, nomming, nom nom

[Laurence Horn]

I actually brought up the homonymy with the NOM group as an argument against choosing "nom" as Word of the Year in the debate before the ADS vote in January.  Don't know if it swayed any voters—not that I was all that excited about "app" either.

LH

On Aug 7, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Ann Burlingham wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Ben Zimmer
> <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>> (Everyone here subscribes to AmSp right? :-)
>
> "Nom" came up when I posted a photo to flickr of people at a National
> Organization for Marriage rally. Both I and a young employee of mine
> thought the acronym "NOM" was giggle-worthy, given the lolcat
> referent. (NOM is an anti-same-sex marriage organization. They use the
> phrase "traditional marriage" to denote mixed-sex monogamous marriage,
> which I find disingenuous.)
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