"crash blossoms" redux

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Far be it from me to steal from ADS-L's glory! I don't believe I
"assigned credit" to Language Log -- I only said that many examples
(including Steve Anderson's) appeared after I first posted about crash
blossoms on Language Log (following John McIntyre).  But I should have
phrased that more carefully -- post hoc ergo propter hoc and all
that...


--Ben Zimmer



On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0909D&L=ads-l&P=R1201
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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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