{"id":223224,"date":"2010-01-24T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2010-01-24T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T17:41:00","slug":"sweet-tooth-fairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/223224","title":{"rendered":"Sweet tooth fairies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a pointer to a bit of whimsical language play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2010\/01\/24\/sweet_tooth_fairies\/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Jan+Freeman+columns\">described<\/a> by Erin McKean in the <em>Boston Globe<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;The Word&#8221; column: composites of the form X Y Z, created by overlapping a composite X Y with a composite Y Z. So: <em>sweet tooth fairy<\/em>, from <em>sweet tooth<\/em> plus <em>tooth fairy<\/em>. Examples that make &#8220;a certain cockeyed sense&#8221; (<em>parlor game warden<\/em>) or those &#8220;merging wildly divergent things&#8221; (<em>magnetic personality disorder<\/em>) are especially entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>Post comments to Erin&#8217;s column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a pointer to a bit of whimsical language play described by Erin McKean in the Boston Globe&#8216;s &#8220;The Word&#8221; column: composites of the form X Y Z, created by overlapping a composite X Y with a composite Y Z. So: sweet tooth fairy, from sweet tooth plus tooth fairy. Examples that make &#8220;a certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}