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Friday, October 24, 2014

"The happy couple jetted off to the sunny climbs of California": gasp the implicature

By JLS
for the GC

From today's World Wide Words, ed. M. Quinion.

"Sean Brady sent a clipping from a local freesheet, the Saffron
Walden Reporter, dated 30 June. A report on a wedding said that the
happy couple were "jetting off to the sunny climbs of California
for their honeymoon." Yosemite perhaps?"

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