The Volokh Conspiracy

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Crime

"House Murders Accused Mother in Court"

If only you could use parentheses in English the way you can in math or computer programming.

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Mark Liberman (Language Log) spots this odd headline at the BBC News.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.