“Are accusations the Guardian is piss-taking piss-taking?”

Genuine headline from the Guardian;

“Are accusations supermarkets are price-gouging inflated?”

In a bold grammatical experiment, The Guardian this week published a headline so syntactically ambiguous it appears to have gaslit itself. Language experts remain divided: is “inflated” the accusations, the prices, or the logic?

Meanwhile, readers were left asking: “Are the accusations inflated, or are we just being charged extra for misplaced modifiers?”

Sources confirm the sentence will be studied in English classes for decades – as a cautionary tale.