to "summit"

[Victor Steinbok]

An observation from the latest Tour de France--some of the commentators
say "will be on the podium in Paris" while others just squirt "will
podium in Paris". Oddly enough TDF's actual podium used to have spaces
for top six finishers--and I suspect it still does. But the comments
above only refer to the top three Olympic-style spots.

     VS-)

On 7/29/2012 7:35 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> 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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