Est. 2011 Vol. XIV — No. 212
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News Anchors Worldwide Scramble to Pronounce “Quinquagintuple” After Stunning New Research Suggests Kardashians “Might” Be Vampires in No Fewer Than 50 Different Ways

Global newsrooms descend into linguistic chaos as broadcasters struggle to explain a 50-layered entendre that nobody actually asked them to explain.

A five-panel collage of newsrooms: an anchor whispering into a coffee cup beside a monitor repeating “quinquagintuple”; a London broadcaster by a whiteboard reading “Change to: Fiftyfold???”; an Australian screen with the word crossed out for “The Big Fifty Thing”; a Canadian anchor covering his mouth; and a pronunciation workshop with phonetic diagrams and a checklist reading “Abandon completely.”
Photographed — Illustration. Clockwise from top left: New York, London, an emergency pronunciation workshop, Canada and Australia.Photo: Supplied

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