Sunday, 24 January 2021

Unconscious punning: 1

An Italian ex-colleague, Francesca, is applying for an EU traineeship, and has asked me to go through her English for her.  

One of the agencies is European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, which is shortened to ECHO. 

In her cover letter, she listed the three agencies she’s apply to.  The above agency appeared on her list as: 


European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) (ECHO)


So she’s done an unconscious pun, haha: echoing ECHO!


Update 250121: She said that is how it appears on their web page, not done by her.  So, someone out there has a sense of humour!

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