"A lucky smattering of folks who picked up The New York Times on Monday were treated to a spadia—a strip just wider than a column, overlapping the front page, that announced the day's highlights."
I can't find "spadia" in OED or usual on-line sources.
I do find "spadix," which means "A spike of flowers on a swollen, fleshy axis." Random House tracks that back to the Greek "span" meaning "torn off."
Via that stem, "spadix" may also be related "spado, Greek for eunuch (ouch.)
In contrast, 'spadia' had so few hits that I could easily sort out all the relevant onces. There are only 13, the most prominent being the the contact-us page of the Kansas City Star. The other 12 are Robert's cite, tsuwm's cite (appearing also here on the same site), and ten we can call Franquent, Contest, Advertiser, TechNews, Gannett, Katz, and the sites of various printers: Neff, Western, Print Quote, and Product BookThis message has been edited. Last edited by: shufitz,