"Soar" -- the new "surge"?

[Joel S. Berson]

On CBS evening news tonight, Scott Pelley, the newcaster with
gravitas (as some columnist recently compared him to the ABC evening
news casters, but without using that particular word) also said
Santorum had soared.

Joel

At 2/14/2012 02:31 PM, Dave Wilton wrote:
>There may be a discouragement of "surge" in relation to "santorum." Dan
>Savage has made it tricky to write of the candidate without evoking
>snickering. I've seen a lot of email and Facebook comments about "surging
>Santorum."
>
>
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>From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
>Joel S. Berson
>Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:44 AM
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>Subject: "Soar" -- the new "surge"?
>
>Reuters refers to Rick Santorum's slight lead over Mitt Romney in the
>Pew poll of likely Republican voters as his having "surged".  But
>Dalia Sussman of the NYTimes slights that word, using "has begun
>soaring" and "bump" (noun) in reference to the NYTimes/CBS News poll
>of Republican primary voters that has very similar figures..  Do I
>sense The Times style guide discouraging "surge"?
>
>Joel
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