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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>My particular favorite was provided by BBC Radio 4 many years ago:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"a mentally retarded services director"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Magnar Brekke</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>NHH-em.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>Fra:</B> corpora-bounces@uib.no på vegne av Justin Washtell<BR><B>Sendt:</B> fr 28.01.2011 11:41<BR><B>Til:</B> David Wible; John Williams<BR><B>Kopi:</B> Corpora@uib.no<BR><B>Emne:</B> Re: [Corpora-List] Moving Lexical Semantics from Alchemy to Science<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Nice example! :-)<BR><BR>Justin Washtell<BR>University of Leeds<BR><BR>________________________________________<BR>From: corpora-bounces@uib.no [corpora-bounces@uib.no] On Behalf Of David Wible [wible@stringnet.org]<BR>Sent: 28 January 2011 09:17<BR>To: John Williams<BR>Cc: Corpora@uib.no<BR>Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Moving Lexical Semantics from Alchemy to Science<BR><BR>How about 'heavy metal fans'?<BR><BR>David<BR><BR><BR>On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:57 PM, John Williams <j0hnwh0ever.corpora@gmail.com<<A href="mailto:j0hnwh0ever.corpora@gmail.com">mailto:j0hnwh0ever.corpora@gmail.com</A>>> wrote:<BR><BR><BR>... P.S. Anyone have some other ambiguous open compounds they are familiar with, besides 'solar system'?<BR><BR>'golf club' springs to mind<BR><BR>j0hn<BR><BR><BR>-----------<BR><BR>John Williams<BR>Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics<BR>School of Languages and Area Studies<BR>PK 2.18, University of Portsmouth<BR>Portsmouth PO1 2DZ<BR>Tel: (0239 284) 2162<BR>Email: john.x.williams@port.ac.uk<<A href="mailto:john.x.williams@port.ac.uk">mailto:john.x.williams@port.ac.uk</A>><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Corpora mailing list<BR>Corpora@uib.no<<A href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">mailto:Corpora@uib.no</A>><BR><A href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Corpora mailing list<BR>Corpora@uib.no<BR><A href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>