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BBC unzips history of speaking clock

Media Monkey: An unfortunate literal on BBC website promises more than readers bargained for
  
  

BBC Speaking clock
The speaking cock: all mouth and trousers. Photograph: Public Domain

Readers in need of a little light relief from the phone-hacking scandal need look no further than the BBC website, which on Friday reported an important anniversary for a telephone service that tells you the time. Except an unfortunate literal in the headline suggested it was more exciting than that: "Speaking cock turns 75 years old on Sunday." The error has since been corrected, but as a service to our readers Monkey saved it for posterity. One in the eye for BBC Online.

 

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