crash blossom

[Mark Mandel]

A nice name. This is a subclass of what Theodore Bernstein called "two-faced
heads".

m a m

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> 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.
>
> Chris Waigl
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