Headline words
Lingua Franca 2022-02-23
Summary:
The current xkcd: The mouseover title: "Roundly-condemned headlinese initiative shuttered indefinitely." Our Headlinese and Crash blossoms categories have been almost entirely about syntactic ambiguity, often in headlines from British publications: “Violinist Linked to JAL Crash Blossoms” "Police officer jailed for attacking members of the public found dead" "Knife crime: St John Ambulance to teach teens […]