Hard to swallow — heroin hidden in suspect's buttA headline of that caliber deserves to be embroidered and hung on a wall. Happily, the good old reliable News-Sun has delivered again, this week, with ...
No doubt this headline counts as a mere also-ran. But that's because Tauts New Tech, technically speaking, is a spellaprop -- while Hard to Swallow answers the question of whether or not newspaper headline writers are permitted to ingest performance enhancing substances, during their lunch breaks.
Rep. Schneider tauts new tech in town hall meeting
A spellaprop occurs when a misspelled word defeats a spell-checker because it is the wrong word but spelled correctly. In "Rep. Schneider tauts new tech in town hall meeting", the word tauts functions as a verb but lexicographically is an adjective:
Taut \Taut\, adj. [Dan. t[ae]t; akin to E. tight. See Tight.]It is hard to tell what the News-Sun headline writer had originally intended to say. Any of these qualify as a reasonable guess:
1. Tight; stretched; not slack.
2. Snug; close; firm; secure.
- Toots
- Texts
- Torts
- Tilts
- Twits
- Taints
- Toasts
- Taunts
- Trouts
- Twerks
Look for your LakeCountyEye, tauting a performance enhancing substance near you.
I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat
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