" to shod " !!

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:55 PM -0400 9/2/09, Wilson Gray wrote:
>It means "To runners who are shod, ... " = "To runners who have shoes
>on, ... " right? What's wrong with that? That's *nothing* like
>
>"As he quietly and carefully _trodded_ the almost-unseen trail, he was
>alert to the possibility of booby-traps."
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I agree that Alison's example involves a participial adjective
modifying "runners", and that "to shod" is not a constituent there.
But it's not hard to google up examples where it is:

In the Web series, Puma will shod dancer characters with its sneakers

Nike also will shod Vince Carter in red, white and blue versions of
his signature VC IV shoe.

I will shod my feed with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

(These are all from googling "will shod".)

I know, SOTAs.  Or SsOTA, if you prefer.

LH

>On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Alison Murie<sagehen7470 at att.net> wrote:
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>>   From an NYT article  in the Health section:
>>  "To shod runners, the idea of running without a shoe sounds impossible."
>>  This one makes me grit my teeth, but probably someone will find that
>>  it has become a common usage.
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