THE multiple arrivals of 20 heads of state for the 2015Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit this week not only locked down traffic in Metro Manila to almost zero but also appear to have taxed to the hilt the English writing skills of the print and online media.

This was particularly evident in how the online edition of a major Metro Manila broadsheet headlined its homepage arrival reports. It did use the verb “arrive” for its umbrella headline for all of them, “World leaders start arriving for APEC,” and also for the headline “US Navy destroyer arrives ahead of Obama visit” and that for the arrival of the President Barack Obama himself, “Obama arrives in Manila for APEC.”

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