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English In Use - 'Ker-Chingford'

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 Daily Mirror story that Chingford in Essex is the luckiest place in Britain for football bets drew the headline  'Ker-Chingford', a clever play on "ker-ching", which is an onomatopoeic word for the sound of a cash register.

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