On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 5:21 AM John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I prefer it as written, which is a full grammatical sentence. Dropping the
> "an" makes it a mild form of headlinese, which is fine since this is in
> fact a headline, but certainly not necessary.  (Extreme headlinese can lead
> to ambiguity, sometimes with grotesque results, as in the WWII-era headline
> "British Push Bottles Up German Rear", where by intention "push" = "sudden
> attack" and "bottles up" = "prevents movement of")
>

I find that example conclusive.  I'm not going to recommend that Marc
change the title.

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