crash blossom

[Chris Waigl]

A post on the Testy Copy Editors forum led to a new term that's being
suggested for a garden-path afflicted infelicitous newspaper headline:
"crash blossom". This comes from the example posted in the thread
("Violinist linked to JAL crash blossoms").

I got this first on Facebook from John McIntyre, and blogged it before
I noted that he also posted this to his own blog.

Forum thread: :http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11134
John McIntyre's post: http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2009/08/now-we-have-term-for-it.html
My blog post: http://chryss.eu/?p=182

I like it.

Chris Waigl

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