When browsing through Google News today, I came across the following headline (left picture):
Has Swine Flu become so pervasive that it has taken on addition parts-of-speech? Grammar has never been my strength, but in this headline has ‘Swine’ been promoted from its usual noun usage to an interrogative adverb?
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That’s painful to read.
Oh dear, some copy editor must have slipped up in the wee hours of dawn when they published this!
Thank, Phoebe. The article was published by BBC news, so I thought they would have had more resources to edit what they put out.