For a moment, it looked like a scandalous story of desertion and plundering by American forces in Iraq. The headline (p. 1 of the New York Times, 8/13/05) read:
G.I.'s Deployed in Iraq Desert
With Lots of American Stuff
Oh, the noun desert, not the verb desert.
Headline writing is full of perils.
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Posted by Arnold Zwicky at August 14, 2005 12:40 PM