Mangling English: an occasional rant

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).

Sunday 17 February 2013

Mangling Meaning, # 3

This is from the Android edition; both headline and text were also originally online, but have been changed on the main BBC News website… Still available on several other pages, though, such as 5Live.

The first paragraph soon loses its connexion to comprehensible prose, while the screamer is ambiguous to the extent of provoking inappropriate humour. Indeed, the headline seems more suited to the tabloid media: is the BBC repositioning itself?

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Sunday 17 February 2013

Mangling Meaning, # 3

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