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Message started by Burstner55 on Jul 21st, 2020, 7:07pm

Title: Strange new BBC language?
Post by Burstner55 on Jul 21st, 2020, 7:07pm

This from the BBC online page for Dorset:   Export bar on leopard attack Roman mosaic,   (A headline).
If you can work this out you need to be working in BBC South Newsroom. If you can’t , join the club.

Title: Re: Strange new BBC language?
Post by WG on Jul 25th, 2020, 4:26pm

Funny
If the word bar is replaced with ban and the word Roman had a small r then it begins to look like something but ,yes, no increment for the individual who let this slip by...

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