Crash blossom of the week

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:01 PM -0400 9/23/09, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>Thanks -- LanguageLogged!
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><http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1762>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1762
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And speaking of crash blossoms--you'll recall my mentioning the Yale
Daily News headline from last week that made it seem as though Yale
admissions was really getting desperate, "Corpse likely student".
Well, today's Globe at http://www.boston.com/ has a teaser in Local
for

"Harvard killing defendants now in state"

We'd never go in for that at Yale.

LH


>On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Laurence Horn
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>Courtesy of my colleague Steve Anderson:
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>"McDonald's fries the holy grail for potato farmers"
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