Wordcraft Home Page    Wordcraft Community Home Page    Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  Potpourri    All-Noun Headlines
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
All-Noun Headlines Login/Join
 
Member
Picture of Stanley
posted
Don't know if anything has been posted about these before, but they always make me laugh. As it sounds - it's where you get long headlines that are entirely made of nouns or contain a long run of nouns in them.

Anyone else seen any of these? Post a link here to your favourites if you see any good ones!

This one's quite impressive: "Profit Distribution Plan share buy back offer acceptance notice" - although presumably "buy back" should actually be one word, so this comes in at 8 nouns long. Also it's not a headline, so perhaps it doesn't count.

Anyone top that? Big Grin


------------------------
If your rhubarb is forwards, bend it backwards.
 
Posts: 98 | Location: Reading, UKReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of arnie
posted Hide Post
Language Log often has fun with these.

In addition, these noun piles often end up as crash blossoms.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
 
Posts: 10940 | Location: LondonReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Stanley
posted Hide Post
Hehe, I love the term "crash blossoms"! Adding that to the mental wossname.

Stanley noun pile conversation word game possibility wonder.


------------------------
If your rhubarb is forwards, bend it backwards.
 
Posts: 98 | Location: Reading, UKReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Kalleh
posted Hide Post
Isn't share used as a verb there?
 
Posts: 24735 | Location: Chicago, USAReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of arnie
posted Hide Post
No, Kalleh. It's a noun, meaning 'stock'. The fact that it looks like a verb adds to the confusion when trying to parse it.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
 
Posts: 10940 | Location: LondonReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
Hmmmm.... redolent of "Odour of Chrysanthemums." by D.H. Lawrence. If one expires in a crash, aren't mums crash blossoms? Roll Eyes
 
Posts: 6187 | Location: Muncie, IndianaReply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of Kalleh
posted Hide Post
Of course, arnie. Now it makes total sense; last night it didn't. I must have been tired.
 
Posts: 24735 | Location: Chicago, USAReply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  
 

Wordcraft Home Page    Wordcraft Community Home Page    Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  Potpourri    All-Noun Headlines

Copyright © 2002-12