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[haseli22]

Dear teachers,

What's the paraphrase of the follwoing headline?

"Clerk bilks city of 2 b pounds"

Thanks.

 

[emsr2d2]

Dear teachers,

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"Clerk bilks city of 2 b pounds"

Thanks.

Have you looked up all the words you don't understand? It's rather strangely written. I assume "b" means "billion". Does that help, in conjunction with dictionary definitions?

 

[Rover_KE]

Where did you see this headline, haseli?

Like ems, I assume 2b pounds means '2 billion pounds' but if a city clerk had embezzled that much money it would have made the international news, not just your local paper.

Rover