Re: OT: terms for people with different hair colours

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@...>
>