Businesses that don't bother checking their websites, journalists who write gibberish and balderdash, professionals who can't take the extra time and effort to spell-check and proofread, newspapers that turn tragedy into farce through solecisms, plus the odd guide to solving common grammatical difficulties…
Contributions and suggestions welcome. (… Also corrections if required, obviously!) Send to: manglingenglishATgmxDOTcom, stating your nom de mangle (if desired).
Monday 24 December 2012
Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 13
Today's and tomorrow's mangles (continuing the seasonal theme) form a pair, a question and response. This, rather unfortunately, is a teacher's question for her students…
This extract offers a double mangle, as it also uses 'classic' (the best of its kind, an outstanding example) where 'classical' (relating to the ancient world, notably Greece and Rome) is meant.
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