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Apr 22, 2025 at 2:14am
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Re: QOTD: Tuesday April 22, 2025
by deemac Author IconMail Icon
Ambiguity is a regular 'Huh?!' generator, especially in the condensed English of headlines with words that can be read as either verbs or nouns.

An old favourite of mine is said to have been a World War I headline - ‘French push bottles up German rear'.
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