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English In Use - 'Glove Story'

A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but its all perfectly clear to the native speaker.

The 1970 romantic drama film Love Story, starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw, was the inspiration behind the headline on a Daily Mirror story that two boxers turned a boxing ring into an engagement ring by going down on one knee and proposing to their girlfriends at a tournament in a hotel in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands. The headline reads: 'Glove Story', replacing the word "love", with "glove",  as in boxing glove.  

(I hope the only ring wasn't the boxing ring.)

 

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