Headline

By Jed on May 9, 2009 5:07 PM | No Comments

Headline from a news story:

Gay rights activist makes Clinton stop

What did the activist make Clinton stop doing, and was it President Clinton or Secretary Clinton?

Answer: Neither: the story is from the Clinton Herald, a newspaper from Clinton, Iowa, and "stop" in that headline is a noun, not a verb.

I was amused.

Context disambiguates!

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