[Ads-l] Treasure-trove or trove?

[Laurence Horn]

Nice job, Michael!  We might object to the use of "noun phrase" in the Guardian piece to refer to the compound "treasure trove", but we shouldn't quibble.  And I hadn't realized before Ben pointed it out in his piece that "treasure trove" began as a noun modified by an adjective before being reanalyzed as a noun modifier followed by a nominal head.  Perhaps "chaise longue" > "chaise lounge" is similar for anyone who thinks of it as a chaisey kind of lounge.  And after all, mother-in-laws are species of in-laws rather than species of mothers...

LH

> On Mar 30, 2015, at 10:31 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Michael Quinion wrote:
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>> This is an interesting event. I've not only been extensively quoted in the
>> British newspaper The Guardian today on the subject of "trove", but also
>> provoked a change to its style guide. It's not every decade I do that!
>> 
>>  https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__wwwords.org_trove&d=AwIBAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=cZ74JQeEkAXd3sDV-zZVt_vsAtOwpuvsf7-synbGEJQ&s=JIg9HQaGcmSiG2kIQWoCSQ51DPdZQJQfAEa4uXvVfsc&e= 
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> Very nice! I also tackled "trove" when I was responding to reader
> questions for the NYT "On Language" column:
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> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2011_01_09_magazine_09FOB-2Donlanguage-2Dt.html&d=AwIBAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=cZ74JQeEkAXd3sDV-zZVt_vsAtOwpuvsf7-synbGEJQ&s=qNh6Nv6swbuqqg21siRF54bdMYK-rhYyy-N2MKBDG6A&e= 
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> I give examples of standalone "trove" back to 1791.
> 
> --bgz
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> Ben Zimmer
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