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English In Use 'He's AllergicTo Watt?''

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.

 

Clever headline in the Daily Star of 'He's Allergic To Watt?' on a story that Cardiff man Peter Lloyd lives in a wooden house because he suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity - he's allergic to electricity! The headline uses 'watt' as in a unit of power instead of 'what.

This isn't the first time we've written about this on the Network.  There's a whole town in America where WiFi is banned

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