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Sunday, October 22, 2006

Unreadable headlines.

Are you sometimes puzzled by headlines that are written so concisely that it's hard to tell whether words are nouns or verbs? Here's one I saw today:
Life peers face axe in Lords overhaul
Five of seven words could be either nouns or verbs!

I still remember and feel like laughing about a headline from a decade ago that began: "Clinton eyes higher..." He was looking toward higher funding or taxes for something or other, but it created the picture of a man whose facial features were migrating.

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