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 rather cheesy headline in the Daily Mail about 22 year student Melissa North, from Herne Bay in Kent, who suffers from a cheese phobia reads; ‘She Must Brie Terrified’, substituting the cheese ‘Brie’ for ‘be’.