Wednesday, August 22, 2007

mishearing a radio excerpt

Yesterday I walked into the kitchen where the BBC Radio 4 News was on and heard, to my surprise, the newsreader say the following: A man who froze to death has been fined £20,000...... 'What's the world coming to?' I thought, until I heard the next part:
...... for carrying out 20 operations on animals. I then realised that the first part of the sentence was: A man who posed as a vet... and not A man who froze to death...


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