crash blossom

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:37 AM +0100 8/27/09, Chris Waigl wrote:
>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.
>
So "British Left Waffles on Falklands" would qualify as a crash
blossom?  Not bad.

LH

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