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To: simpson96
they have found a second parchment copy.

So where did the Harvard University researchers find the first parchment copy in England? Oh, they didn't!

Even [/sarc] the Boston globe does not hire writer who can write or editors who can edit.

No one teaches plain English anymore.

How about "A parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence found in England," which is also bad writing because it is passive voice, but perhaps forgivable in a headline.

2 posted on 04/21/2017 6:41:57 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

You’re right. I notice it all the time.


3 posted on 04/21/2017 6:50:07 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: AndyJackson
My suggested revision for the led:

Two Harvard University researchers announced Friday that they have found, in a tiny records office in southern England, a second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence in a tiny records office in southern England.

Admittedly, as a German-speaker, I have less problem with re-arranging clauses like that (German is more insistent upon this point than English).

How about "A parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence found in England," which is also bad writing because it is passive voice, but perhaps forgivable in a headline.

The original headline is actually okay, insofar as it includes a dash before "in England," making clearer that the discovery was merely in England, and not that it was the second of two parchments, both found in England.

Regards,

13 posted on 04/22/2017 1:10:10 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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