A would-be crash blossom

[The Guardian, October 29, 2025.]

I want to call it a crash blossom, but it’s really an error in subject-verb agreement posing as a crash blossom. If that problem were fixed, there’d be a genuine crash blossom: should cuts cost be read as noun and verb, or verb and noun?

And what is it ?

C’mon, Guardian.

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Later in the day: The headline now reads cuts cost: a genuine crash blossom. It is still unclear.

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