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English In Use - 'Re-purr-ting For Duty'

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.

Purr is the English word for the sound that a cat makes when it's content, and it has been adapted to be used in the headline 'Re-purr-ting For Duty' on a Daily Express story that four cats who were used for vermin control at the now closed Kellingley Colliery in Yorkshire have got new jobs working on a nearby farm.

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