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 perfeclty clear to the native speaker.
The Daily Star indulged in a bit of scare-mongering when covering the political crisis in Greece last week. They used the headline 'It's Acropolis Now, Greece' on a story that the country was teetering on the brink of a military coup as the debt-hit nation slumped into crisis.
The headline is a play on the 1979 American Vietnam war film "Apocalypse Now". The Apocalypse describes the complete and final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation. Acropolis (Greek: Ακρόπολις) means "high city" in Greek, literally city on the extremity and is usually translated into English as Citadel, but to Brits "the Acropolis" refers to the Acropolis of Athens, which, by reason of its historical associations and the several famous buildings erected upon it (most notably the Parthenon).