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English In Use - 'Boomtown Spat'

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.

Bob Geldof used to be the lead singer with the band The Boomtown Rats so when he was involved in a verbal clash on the River Thames with anti-EU campaigner Nigel Farage, the 'I' newspaper used the headline 'Boomtown Spat.' Spat is another word for quarrel.

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