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.
British tabloid newspapers are the masters at the one word headline which superbly captures a moment or a major news event. And the Daily Mirror hit the jackpot with their headline 'Facebucks' on the story that social networking site Facebook had been launched on the stock market making its founder Mark Zuckerburg £12billion richer in the process. They simply changed 'book' for'bucks' (as in dollars).
From Lynne:-
This weekend I also saw some T-shirts printed with the word "Fakebook", but the main prize has to go to the New York Post for their headline "Zuckers!" A play on Mark Zuckerburg's name and the idiom "sucker", that describes anyone easily taken in or fooled.
The story went as follows:-
They were Mark Zuckerberg's cash cows.
Hordes of everyday New Yorkers played the fool yesterday to Wall Street fat cats and Facebook insiders, who used a bloated stock price to milk them of billions of dollars during an overhyped IPO.
With a $38-a-share price tag and forecasts for a 10 percent jump, mom-and-pop investors blindly bought in with dreams of instant riches that never came true.
Meanwhile, the social network's hoodie-wearing CEO finished the day with a net worth of $19.25 billion. The average Facebook employee saw their on-paper wealth shoot up to $2.9 million.
A nice little wedding present I guess.