“Border force staff to walk out ahead of Olympics”
That’s from today’s Telegraph. Whoever wrote it gets a demerit in the clarity department.
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“Border force staff to walk out ahead of Olympics”
That’s from today’s Telegraph. Whoever wrote it gets a demerit in the clarity department.
Link, please?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9413337/Border-force-staff-to-walk-out-ahead-of-Olympics.html
Apparently the border isn’t forcing anyone to do anything, which is what it initially read like for me. Nor is there a person named Border who is forcing anything. Rather, the border patrol, referred to as the “border force” is going on strike.
The funny image is of the border forcing staff to march at the head of the olympic opening ceremony parade
Headline elision isn’t necessarily obscure. I once saw in Oxford a newspaper vendor’s poster with “Oxon man on wife murder bid charge”; the treble apposition isn’t elegant, but it’s unambiguous.
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