former Beatle

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/8/2010 10:10 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>  I think I could also imagine a widower referred
>to as the former husband of the woman whose death left him a widower,
>so Ted Hughes as "the former husband of Sylvia Plath" rather than (or
>alternatively to) as "Sylvia Plath's widower".

If I hear "former", I think divorce, not death.

Joel

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