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Thread #116814   Message #2512088
Posted By: Bainbo
10-Dec-08 - 06:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing
Subject: RE: BS: Ambiguous Phrasing
Back in the days when newspaper design was very different, it was the Daily Express (I think) which was said to have had to squeeze a two-line headline, with a byline, across a single-column story.

It read:

Nurse
raped

By our
crime staff