Talk:crash crop

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crash crop

Any takers? Looks like a protologism to me. SemperBlotto (talk) 18:51, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Yes albeit a weird one, doesn't even make sense because it has the same definition as cash crop but I'd expect it to be like a humorous opposite of cash crop. A crop grown to be destroyed in order to keep prices up. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:12, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

It may look like one, but it isn't. It's easy enough to find examples like [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], and [7]. The hard part is figuring out whether they're intentional or just absent-minded errors. The brain tends to look for ways to simplify things, so similar sounds in the same position tend to get made even more similar- it's the principal that makes a lot of tongue-twisters work. In fact, I'm sure if you were to say "cash crop" a bunch of times in a row, quickly, you would find yourself saying "crash crop" after a while. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:16, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

I gave this a go and you're right :). Mglovesfun (talk) 09:32, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

I would say they are typos. Most of them use the phrase cash crop elsewhere in the document, which seems an unlikely variation in style if they are supposed to be synonymous. The fourth one is definitely a typo as it is a misquote of this article from the Boston Globe. SpinningSpark 00:05, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 20:42, 30 November 2013 (UTC)