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Sunday, October 11, 2009

"Brit Fans Nuts For Squirrel."

Hmm.

That's one of those bizarrely ambiguous headlines they call "crash blossoms" over at Language Log:
"[C]rash blossoms" [are] "those train wrecks of newspaper headlines that lead us down the garden path to end up against a wall, scratching our head and wondering what on earth the subeditor might possibly have been thinking." Indeed, when such infelicitous headlines have come up here on Language Log, they have typically been discussed as examples of "garden path sentences."

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