Bob Costas, during a feature on Natalie du Toit, referred to the Paralympics as the Para-Olympics which , if you think about it, could be because he's just spent over a week saying the word Olympics hundreds of times a day.
Or it could be because he really thinks the Paralympics are called that.
I have an idea how to fix all of this. Let's break the word down in disability terms.
Para as in paraplegic
Lymp as in limp
Ics as in prosthet"ics".
Whereas Para-O -lympics sounds like cheerleaders running around, shouting "give me an O". Reminiscent of CheeriOs. It just doesn't work.
This could be the first controversy of the Paralympics.
Paralympics.
No O.
1 comment:
Thank you for the spelling lesson. I am writing a piece about the paralympics. I googled "para-olumpics" to check the spelling and your story came up.
Good job!
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