This morning’s Mother Goose and Grimm turns on a simple, silly ambiguity, but then the story gets more complicated: (#1) First pass: hooters (1) ‘creatures that hoot, i.e., owls’ (straightforward derivational morphology, but specialized semantically) vs. Hooters, the restaurant chain fixated on hooters (2) N. Amer. vulgar slang for ‘a woman’s breasts’ (NOAD2). Then there’s another sense, on … Continue reading What a hoot!