March 26, 2009

What's in a name?

You know the writer of this story has a twisted sense of humor. Her use of verbs is wicked:
"A study found the number of people with the name Cock shrank to 785 last year from 3,211 in 1881, those called Balls fell to 1,299 from 2,904 and the number of Deaths were reduced to 605 from 1,133."
And people say newswriting is dull.

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