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!
Phoebe Yu on June 18th, 2009
at 4:45 pm
Thank, Phoebe. The article was published by BBC news, so I thought they would have had more resources to edit what they put out.
Tim on June 20th, 2009
at 3:01 pm