Date:  Wed, 14 Dec 1994 14:30:10 -0500

From:  Jesse T Sheidlower <jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PANIX.COM>

Subject: Re: Word...of the year



> This year the WOTY session has been bifurcated. Nominations will be made and

> received at 10 am Wednesday the 28th. David Barnhart will have his own list,

> and John and Adele Algeo's (they can't attend this year but have sent two

> pages), and will present those and consider others, making a list of final

> candidates in cooperation with others present. Then the next afternoon, at

> our usual 5 pm time, we'll have the usual vote on the winners.

> Please join in, if you can. And in case we get media attention as we did

> last year, please let me know if you'd like to help with newspaper, radio,

> and TV interviews.

> If you can't be there, you *can* join in the deliberations by posting your

> own nominations on ADS-L. (Or if for some reason you're shy, send them

> directly to me.) Even if you can be there, advance notice will help.



If there really is a day and a half between the nominations and the

voting, I'd like to suggest that the list of nominations be posted to

ADS-L, and allow non-attendees to vote by proxy by E-mail. This would

not only permit the participation of more Society members, but would

also give us a gigantic hook and which to hang a publicity effort--the

information superhighway, our very successful word of the year, is still

enough in the news that using it to vote for next year's WotY would

be noticed.



Jesse T Sheidlower

Random House Reference

<jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]panix.com>