Roz Chast in the September 2nd New Yorker: (#1) An exercise in the semantics of N + N compounds, exploiting an ambiguity that might not have occurred to you: in the semantics of the modifying N, N1 (here, the coordinate N bricks and mortar); in the semantics of the head N, N2 (here, the understood N … Continue reading bricks ˈnˈ mortar