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English in Use - A Star in the Yeast

A selection of headlines from stories in the news.  They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse, but it's all perfectly clear to the native speaker.

A Star in the Yeast is a headline in the Sun newspaper referring to a story about a South Wales mum of three who claims to have seen an image of Jesus in a jar of Marmite.

The headline makes use of the fact that Marmite is a yeast extract food and that A Star in the East is a biblical term referring to the Star of Bethlehem which led the three wise men to a manger in Bethlehem where Jesus was born.

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