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Re: OT: terms for people with different hair colours

From:Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
Date:Monday, October 20, 2008, 10:23
Parsing ambiguity! a carrot[mod]-top[noun] vs. a carrot-top[mod]!
Eugene

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 07:43, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote: > > red head - carrot top, copper top, ginger kid > > Though I knew a redhead who was very much against being called "carrot > top", since - as she pointed out - carrot tops are *green*! > > In Germany, I've also heard (rarely) "Duracell", since those batteries > were marketed for a while as "the ones with a copper head" ("die mit > dem Kupferkopf"). > > Cheers, > -- > Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> >