NYT Goofup is a syntactic blend

[Gareth Branwyn]

Alice Faber wrote:

> This particular instance struck me as an uninteresting example of what
> happens when you get interrupted in the middle of editing; you've made half
> the changes from one structure to another and the phone rings.

Years ago, in computer geek circles, these were playfully referred to as
"Word turds," which I guess one could define as "crap left over from a
previous sentence form." One of the drawbacks of wordpro composition, I
supppose. As an editor, I see these all the time in manuscripts.