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English In Use - 'Aporkerlypse Now'

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.

What have the 1979 American Vietnam War film 'Apocalypse Now' and 'porker', the British slang for a fat person, have in common? Well they are combined by the headline writers at The Sun for the headline of 'Aporkerlypse Now' on a story that one of the government's top medical advisers has warned of the serious threat of obesity to women in the UK.

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