Wednesday 15 July 2015

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 83

Another of those pesky homophones, perhaps a hangover from the recent general election. The tone and lexis here suggest that The Independent, once a credible broadsheet, is close to completing its transformation into a tabloid, though the report does appear in a section called ‘Weird news’:

Link: The Independent, ‘Man arrested for “kidnapping” his own son […]’
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