02.12.2009 9:26 am

Copy editor explains using “brangle” in headline

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis Post-Dispatch copy editor June Heath added a comment to yesterday’s blog item about using “brangle” in a headline — “O’Fallon, Mo., officials brangle anew” — at the top of Wednesday’s Metro section. Several staffers and a few readers unfamiliar…

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02.11.2009 10:06 am

When’s the last time you heard the word brangle?

By Steve Parker

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Since when are we using British archaic words in big honkin Metro headlines?”

That email question from a St. Louis Post-Dispatch staffer greeted me this morning. More significantly, several readers called us to complain that they weren’t familiar with the word…

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Copy editor explains using “brangle” in headline

When’s the last time you heard the word brangle?

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