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…
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Tuesday 16 April 2013
Mangling Meaning, # 4
There's been much mangling of meaning by the media recently. Today's almost indecipherable example, which combines general balderdash with syntactically unviable quotations and some USA spelling, comes from last Sunday's online Telegraph:
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