Watchwords: Arcade Fire headline was an example of 'verbing'

In July, the British newspaper The Guardian lavished four reviews and articles on the Montreal band Arcade Fire, who played a live concert in Manchester just before the release of their new album Everything Now. The headline of one of those articles stopped me in my tracks: “Did Arcade Fire just fake news themselves with a spoof gig dress code?” My eyebrows rose only a little at the last four words, all one-syllable nouns; headline writers often rely on shortcuts to deliver meaning i