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English in Use - 'Tummy Guns'

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.

 

The Daily Mirror uses the headline 'Tummy Guns' on a report that more British women soldiers - 35 since 2007 - became pregnant in Iraq than in any other war zone, despite the Army's sex ban for troops. The headline is a play on 'tommy gun' which means submachine gun.

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