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To: Deaf Smith

It's the NY Post. They use creative writing in their stories all the time.

My favorite they use is "strap hanger". That is used to describe people on the subway.

It's almost like a paper from 1930. Another word they use a lot is "crook". I love that.

28 posted on 06/22/2022 9:07:05 PM PDT by Pappy Smear

To: Pappy Smear

Some of it might be the Brit influence. (NY Post is owned by News Corp)

29 posted on 06/22/2022 9:12:33 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")

To: Pappy Smear

My favorite they use is "strap hanger". That is used to describe people on the subway.

Newspapers often spell it as a compound word, without a hyphen: "straphanger" - which makes me think that it ought to be pronounced "strafanger."

Regards,

31 posted on 06/22/2022 10:08:54 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)

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