"crash blossoms" redux

[Laurence Horn]

Nice piece by Ben for the Times "On Language" column today...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage-t.html
...but I notice credit for the "gem" (datum provided by my colleague
Steve Anderson) has been reassigned from ADS-L--

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Subject:         Crash blossom of the week
From:   Laurence Horn <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: American Dialect Society <[log in to unmask]>
Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:00:31 -0400

Courtesy of my colleague Steve Anderson:
"McDonald's fries the holy grail for potato farmers"
http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/us/2009/09/23/D9ASV9F80_us_spud_stud/index.html

LH
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--to Language Log.

The appearance in LL was a bit later in the day, literally, although
granted it comes with the original AP piece and a photo of some of
the fried grail in question:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1762


LH

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