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Thu Nov 8, 2018, 01:01 AM Nov 2018

When a - counts



Newspaper humiliated by missing hyphen in hilarious headline fail

http://hamrosuchana.com/newspaper-humiliated-by-missing-hyphen-in-hilarious-headline-fail/


A short fluff piece written by Gale Rose was missing an important hyphen in the headline. The error was corrected in the newspaper’s digital version of the article, but the physical copies were a total loss.

While the headline writer learned a “first-hand” lesson in editing, everyone else had a great laugh.

Twitter was filled with fantastic sexual innuendos in response to the headline
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