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English In Use - Wine Corkies

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.

The Sun has penned a great headline "Drinkers tell wine corkies..." on a story that according to new research, the amount of wine that people in England drink has been underestimated by the equivalent of 12 million bottles - a week.   When people are asked how much they drink and when researchers look at how much is bought, there is a huge discrepancy.

A cork is a a bottle stopper used in wine, and "corkies" is a play on "porkies", slang for "lies".  

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