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 1. And The Winners Are...



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Date:  Sun, 31 Dec 1995 12:20:48 -0600

From:  Cynthia Bernstein <bernscy[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.AUBURN.EDU>

Subject: Re: And The Winners Are...



I loved this story because it shows what I see as the real function of

WOTY nominations--getting people thinking and talking about words.



Happy New Year!



Cynthia Bernstein

Dept. of English

Auburn University, AL 36849-5203





On Sat, 30 Dec 1995, Bethany Dumas, UTK wrote:



> I see a problem this year that I was not aware of last year. When I saw the

> list of nominees, I assumed (I realize now) that we were referencing SPOKEN

> words --hence my objection to words like "www." I think in the future we

> might want to devise some way to recognize both prined words and spoken

> words, sometimes in separate categories.

>

> I regret that "hello?" did not get some recognition. I heard a great example

> of its use this morning in (horse-)jumping lesson. Terry finished her round, and

> Deb, the instructor, started giving Sara instructions. It became clear that

> Sarah was hlaf asleep and not listening. Deb stopped, then said,

> "Sara, it's your round. HELLO???"

>

> I then explained that that was a nominee in the WOTY contest, etc. So we

> stopped to define words, then resumed jumping.

>

> Great Saturday morning activity! The sun was shining and the temp. was about

> 40. (That's part of the reason I was not in Chicago.)

>

> Looking forward to ADS w/LSA in 1997!

>

> Thanks for all the good work, especially from you, Natalie.

>

> Bethany

>