[Ads-l] Crash blossom from the NYT obits page

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Mar 24 17:14:22 UTC 2016


Headline from today's print edition, B16:
"Malik Taylor, 45, Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg, Dies"

[spoiler space for anyone else who wants to puzzle it out...]

























I had no idea how to parse this, but the online version of the headline is a bit more transparent:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/arts/music/malik-taylor-phife-dawg-of-a-tribe-called-quest-dies-at-45.html

LH
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org



More information about the Ads-l mailing list