to "summit"

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Sun Jul 29 23:35:08 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> Not in OED, but Google turns up nearly a quarter million raw hits for the
> phrase "to summit Mt. Everest" alone.

For some discussion, and for an Olympic tie-in, see my On Language
column on "podiuming":

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/magazine/07FOB-onlanguage-t.html

--bgz

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