"the 12th man" redux

[Laurence Horn]

And nobody in or around College Station TX, as far as we know, named their baby 12th Mann (cf. http://bit.ly/1fqCFis, as posted earlier).

LH


On Feb 3, 2014, at 1:43 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>>
>> My latest Wall Street Journal column is on "the 12th man," a phrase
>> that the Seattle Seahawks have to pay Texas A&M a licensing fee to
>> use. I present some historical evidence that might undercut A&M's
>> trademark claim, including examples of "the 12th man" to refer to fans
>> of college football teams predating the legendary 1922 A&M game where,
>> according to Aggie lore, the phrase was born.
>>
>> Link to column: http://on.wsj.com/12manbz
> [...]
>> More to come on Monday in my Word Routes column on Vocabulary.com and
>> the Visual Thesaurus.
>
> And here's the follow-up:
>
> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-twelfth-man-a-football-phrase-with-disputed-roots/
>
> --bgz
>
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