headlinese

English

Examples

The headline "College Sports Parking Tax Plan Critic to Quit City Hall" might denote that a criticizer of a plan to tax parking at college sporting events will leave their municipal employment soon

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Etymology

From headline +‎ -ese.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˌhɛd.laɪˈniz/

Noun

headlinese (uncountable)

  1. The jargon used in headlines of newspapers, often with unconventional grammar driven mainly by extreme brevity as a constraint of the medium.
    Hypernyms: journalese, newspaperese
    • 2021 May 29, Richard Nordquist, “What Is Headlinese?”, in ThoughtCo‎[1]:
      [Otto] Jespersen, a language professor known for his expertise in syntax and language development, stated that headlinese is not really grammatical writing.

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