Headline of the day
My favorite newspaper (whose website, incidentally, stinks) ran this headline today on its English-language section:
Skeleton earns Swiss first gold
The explanation for the oddness is that skeleton, apparently, is some sort of Olympic sport while the mangled syntax is due to “Swiss” being an indirect object rather than an adjective. Whoever wrote this headline last night must have had a lot of fun — as much fun as one can have at this serious, highbrow paper.
T K Vogel | 8:54 am |
