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CNN busts its boiler on AMAZING linguistics!

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Right, so the CNN chaps and chapesses are excellent at pronouncing all those Iraqi and Libyan names.  Conceded. (Except Anna Coren).

 

But get a load of this one from the pommie CNN Sports Guy on today's world wrap of sporting highlights  (31/8/09) 1/09 in Australia's longitudes.

 

'If Federer wins this one, it will be his first Grand Slam win since he became a father to six week old twins.'  Ummmmmmmmmm go figure!  Were they 6 weeks old when born?  And why does that make a difference?  Is he the one getting up in the night to breast-feed?  Sleep deprived from the crying?  Well, they have a right to cry being 6 weeks old at birth and being blamed already for their father's losses.