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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Since "warming trend" is a common collocation, I concur.

JL

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 8:51 AM Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:

> 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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