• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    8 hours ago

    It’s correct, as much as any English is correct, but not typically spoken naturally like that.

    The press (newspapers) has an idiosyncratic grammar, probably born of maximising space in a newspaper column. Headlines are often grammatical nightmares, body copy less so.

    One could think of it as a form of semantic compression.