For those of us who like to write and want to write better, the “BBC News Styleguide”:http://www.bbctraining.co.uk/pdfs/newsStyleGuide.pdf might be fun to look at. [via "charleshartman.org":http://www.charleshartman.org/mt/archives/2003/08/20/bbcnewsstyleguide.html]
Early on, there are some examples of unintended ambiguities, which could be used in intro semantics to illustrate scope.
bq. The first rule of writing is to know what you want to say. This may seem a statement of the obvious, but items are often broadcast which are not exactly what the writer intended:
For the second time in six months, a prisoner at Durham jail has died after hanging himself in his cell.
The ability of some people to die more than once is also illustrated in this headline:
A suicide bomber has struck again in Jerusalem.
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