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		<title>Crash Blossoms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jody Bruner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you see the ambiguity in these newspaper headlines? McDonald’s Fries the Holy Grail for Potato Farmers Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Space Craft New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group Real Estate Executive Sold on City Market Pecan Scab Disease Causing Nuts to Fall Off Deer [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-1012" href="http://brunerbiz.com/grammar/crash-blossoms/attachment/istock_000006518705xsmall-2/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1012 alignnone" title="newspaper headlines" src="http://brunerbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/iStock_000006518705XSmall1.jpg" alt="newspaper headlines" width="426" height="282" /></a>Do you see the ambiguity in these newspaper headlines?</p>
<p><strong>McDonald’s Fries the Holy Grail for Potato Farmers </strong></p>
<p><strong>Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms </strong></p>
<p><strong>Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Space Craft </strong></p>
<p><strong>New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group </strong></p>
<p><strong>Real Estate Executive Sold on City Market </strong></p>
<p><strong>Pecan Scab Disease Causing Nuts to Fall Off </strong></p>
<p><strong>Deer and Turkey Hunt for Disabled People </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>They work because English has so many words that function as both nouns and verbs. When you strip away unnecessary words, such as when you are writing a headline, you can expose this ambiguity. Each headline can be read in two ways. Read an interesting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage-t.html?ref=magazine" target="_blank">article</a> about this phenomenon in the New York Times by <a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?author=8" target="_blank">Language Log</a> linguist Ben Zimmer.</p>
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