The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
He'd always, like our parents and like everyone else, heard a comma there, thinking the singer was inviting a woman, Fanny, to take a load off, whatever that means, and put the load on him, the singer.
Yes, and I think that might take a load off if students are feeling like I have to use past perfect and future perfect and all of these really unique grammar forms.
And again, Harry ten Haag, United offered him the chance a couple of times for Steve McLaren to take a couple of press conferences just to take the load off.