[Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 22 Nov 2021 to 23 Nov 2021 (#2021-158)

[Amy West]

On 11/24/21 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Wed, 24 Nov 2021 01:27:22 +0000
> From:    "Shapiro, Fred"<fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> Subject: Slight Antedating of "Global Warming"
>
> global warming (OED 1952 [28 Apr.])
>
> 1952_Asheville Citizen-Times_  7 Apr. 3/1 (Newspapers.com)  Scientists who are studying global warming trends point out tht not a single iceberg was sighted last year south of Parellel [sic] 46.
>
> Fred Shapiro

I hate to be a PITA, but this is where sentence stress or hyphenation 
really helps the parsing, doesn't it? Is it more likely to be [global 
warming][trends] than [global][warming trends]? Or am I being stupid in 
addition to a PITA (or is the quality of stupidity including in being a 
PITA)?

---Amy West

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