to spread the rumour
- Fuente de la expresión
- Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus ©Cambridge University Press
- Estructura completa
- to spread the rumour [about something]
- Variantes
- to spread the [rumour, word]
- Contexto
- When a far fetched story about enforced polygamy in Eritrea began circulating, it captured attention across the continent. But in fact similar stories - all of them false - have cropped up in a number of countries since the beginning of the year.
And in each case, the way hoaxers spread the rumour on social media pretty much identical. - Tipo de fuente
- webpage
- Autor
- BBC Trending
- Título de la fuente
- The polygamy hoax that spread from Iraq to Eritrea
- Año
- 2016
- Web
- http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35430909
- Observaciones
- We can found rumour (British English) or rumor (American English)
- Idioma
- English
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