Lastly, there are Chinese whispers , which make the Internet such a perfect vehicle for urban legend.

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While this is surely a case of Chinese Whispers, you'd hope the Beeb would come across as more even-handed when interviewing members of the public.

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But religious studies there had been much handicapped by confusion about texts, as meanings and translations had, over the course of centuries, suffered from a kind of Chinese whispers.

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