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English in Use - An Inspectre Calls

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.

'An Inspectre Calls' is a headline from the Mirror newspaper about police in Wales spent £20,000 on a murder probe after psychics said the ghost of a man found hanged told them he was killed by gangsters.

The headline makes use of a famous play "An inspector calls" replacing inspector with "inspectre".  Spectre is another word for ghost.

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