Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 21:56:53 EST

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Roll over, sparrow grass...



...and give Elephant & Castle (not to mention the 4-stair furnace) the news.

Tired of trotting out those same tired examples of loss of transparency/folk

etymology/reanalysis? Try this one on for size:



"Meanwhile, Richard Parker Bowles, brother of Camilla's ex-husband,

Andrew, said that from the beginning Camilla approved of Charles'

marrying Diana while she remained his power mower."

Richmond Times-Dispatch, quoted in

New Yorker, 1.22/95, p. 83

Let me be your power mower/

Till your push mower comes home?



OK, it's too nonce to qualify for WOTY. But maybe it'll catch on.



Larry