Did Browning Nagle use the word "paradigm?"
Well, that's the word he used in a column by Newsday's Jim Baumbach, who caught up with Nagle to talk about his experiences as the Jets' ill-fated quarterback.
Why such a surprise that Nagle would use the word paradigm? Well, he wasn't known to toss around $5 words during his time with the Jets, who tried in vain to get Brett Favre in the 1991 draft, only to settle on Nagle.
In fact, some Jets players had nicknamed Nagle "Nuke" after the Bull Durham character Nuke LaLoosh, who had the million dollar arm and the 10 cent brain.
Good to see paradigm has become part of his every-day lexicon.
Pronunciation: 'per-&-"dIm, 'pa-r&- also -"dim
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin paradigma, from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknynai to show side by side, from para- + deiknynai to show -- more at DICTION
1 : EXAMPLE, PATTERN; especially : an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype
2 : an example of a conjugation or declension showing a word in all its inflectional forms
3 : a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated; broadly : a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind
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Eh, c'mon Bob, back when public school education on Long Island was an educational experience and not a babysitting service in the 60's and 70's words like paradigm were common vernacular.
Hell, my friend Vinny Bellacraccia's little sister Anita used to offer kisses for that under the football bleachers at Plainedge HS all the time.
I have the tape to prove it!