conundrum

[Sarah Hurst]

I just read in the paper that Alaskans found "a soccer and later a
volleyball" washed up among the debris from the Japanese tsunami. I really
don't like this because it sounds like "soccer" is a noun, i.e. the ball
that was found - even more so because the "ball" in "volleyball" is part of
the word and not a separate word. But I also think that "a confectionery and
a pasta factory" sounds like "a confectionery" is a noun, unrelated to a
factory.

Sarah Hurst

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