With the subs here, if this made the print edition:
A pirate’s life! Top secret US spy submarine returns to port flying the Jolly Roger flag ‘in signal that could mean it’s been in SUNK another ship’
With the subs here, if this made the print edition:
A pirate’s life! Top secret US spy submarine returns to port flying the Jolly Roger flag ‘in signal that could mean it’s been in SUNK another ship’
I would of said that’s bad.
The vernacular is “been and sunk”, not “been in sunk”.
Even when they get it wrong, they get it wrong.
Could be that someone did ask for an amend to this line..
something like replace “shooting down” with Sinking. and it all got messed up.
“The tradition started in 1914 in England when a ship flew the Jolly Roger after shooting down an enemy”
Yes subs, but either the person who wrote this was having a very bad day or they don’t have the journalistic skills to avoid making such howlers.
in England,,,shooting down an enemy..
i don’t think they’re a native english speaker.
Is In Sunk a North Korean?
Do they have subs? I thought they used second language speakers on internship.
“it’s been’n sunk”
works sort of
How “significant” is the caption under the second photo?
How much does it “bare”?
Skull and cross bones, are the pirate flags.
The whole thing is ghastly. Caption to photo:
“The flag bares some significance”
Poor old significance, having her delicate nether regions exposed like that. Clever flag for being able to do it though…
DM inaccurately recycling old news – photo is from April.
USA is not UK.
It’s a RN Submarine tradition as is RN wet ships.
USN have their own traditions such as dry ships.