Monday, July 25, 2011

Your Questions About Breaking News English

Daniel asks…What does the phrase STOP PRESS mean? Something like breaking news?I see this phrase as a title or category on many news websites (e.g. http://www.esldefence.co.uk/stop_press.html, http://www.hants.gov.uk/regulatory/stoppres.html,
http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/mar-2007/17/editorials1.php,
http://higherenglish.wordpress.com/2007/02/17/stop-press/),
but I am puzzled about the meaning since I'm not a native speaker of English.admin answers:Hi.

This phrase literally means 'stop the p

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