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English In Use - 'It's The Virgin Moo-ry'

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.

'It's The Virgin Moo-ry' is a Daily Mail headline on a story that a cow at Pinewood Nurseries in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, which has no bulls, gave birth to a calf!

The headline makes a less than PC play on 'Virgin Mary', turning it into 'Moo-ry' as in a cow's 'moo'.

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