End of ADS-L Digest - 4 Jan 1997 to 5 Jan 1997
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There are 22 messages totalling 464 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. WOTY pre-vu -Reply
 2. Soccer Moms
 3. Year 2000 (5)
 4. Year 2000--Apologies
 5. Nail and sport
 6. WOTY (2)
 7. Gay Nineties -Reply
 8. "Ebonics"
 9. WOTY 97: palmtop?
 10. WOTY- what were they?
 11. text for language and gender
 12. phonetics book?
 13. Bounced Mail
 14. New on the Web
 15. WOTY on CNN
 16. WOTY Is Fringe!
 17. WOTY on ABC, 1-6.

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Date:  Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:30:25 -0500
From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>
Subject: Re: WOTY pre-vu -Reply

>Hm! In watching the gymnastic events, I noticed "nail" only in "nail
>a landing/dismount", and I gathered from the use and accompanying
>commentary that the phrase referred to coming off the equipment to
>the floor, or (in the floor routines) out of a jump or flip (or
>whatever), to a clean landing with both feet on the floor, without
>moving the feet or taking a step to recover one's balance. I
>associated the metaphor with the image that the feet stick to the
>floor as if nailed to it.
>
>Has anyone heard this word used for any event other than a gymnastic
>one, and referring to anything but a landing?
>
>>>> Allan Metcalf <AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM> 12/30/96, 01:25pm >>>
> Some of this year's top candidates are:
>* nail (v) -- to accomplish perfectly, as in an Olympic event

At the ADS meeting, Allan handed me a news clipping indicating that Clinton
had "nailed the election." Many of us noted that the sexual connotations
of the term had apparently been sanitized enough for use in the mass media.




Wayne Glowka
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Director of Research and Graduate Student Services
Georgia College & State University
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