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During the recent devastating floods in Queensland, Australia, the front page of the Morning Bulletin of Rockhampton on 6 January included the headline "30,000 pigs swept away in flood". The next day, the paper featured this correction: "What Baralaba piggery-owner Sid Everingham actually said was '30 sows and pigs', not '30,000 pigs'." World Wide Words is copyright © Michael Quinion 2011. All rights reserved. The Words website is at http://www.worldwidewords.org . You may reproduce brief e...