morbid crash blossom

[Michael Quinion]

More correspondence has come in about that item than for any in recent
years. Lots of readers were puzzled because they couldn't find anything
wrong with it.

I might have included, for different reasons, the headline from the
Toronto Star on friday: "man charged after New York crash that killed
couple, baby being held with no bail."

> Headline from today's edition of Michael Quinion's World Wide Words:
>
> (e.g. at
> http://timesofnews.co/2013/03/03/baby-born-after-crash-kills-parents/)
>
> BABY BORN AFTER CRASH KILLS PARENTS
>
> Yup, and then he threw himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds
> that he's an orphan.

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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
Web: http://www.worldwidewords.org

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