pollution for pollination

Tue Apr 3 18:42:06 UTC 2007

On Apr 1, 2007, at 8:17 PM, sagehen wrote:

>  Morning Edition (NPR) this morning (Apr 1), correcting an error in an
> earlier story on brought to their attention by a letter writer, to
> wit, the
> assertion that the dearth of honeybees afflicting the US meant
> interference
> in the* blooming*  of flowering plants, wzs corrected by saying
> that it
> wasn't the blooming but the "pollution" that was affected.
> (I suppose this could have been an Apr fool gag, but it didn't
> sound like one.)

i caught it too, and supposed it was a Fay/Cutler malapropism (a
glitch in lexical retrieval).

meanwhile, da prez, in his press conference this morning, said "air
traffickers" for "air travelers".  also a F/C malaprop.

arnold

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