Commitments elsewhere mean a week or two of quick-and-dirty mini-mangles, freed at last from languishing in the archives awaiting their moment. Today's dates back to February, and is a truly Best in Class typographical error from the Tolygriph Tilygroff Tallygruff, reproducing the words (but surely not the spelling) of Mary Creagh, Member of Parliament for Wakefield and Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
There's a very odd use of commas too… Mind you, things weren't looking good from the outset, given the problem in the report's title:
The til needs a leading apostrophe to be a valid alternative to till or until…
Dear Mangling,
ReplyDeleteHaving learned of your website from a comment about misprints from abebooks.com, I confess I had little success finding a way to make a contribution. Gmail insisted I set up a blogsite, which seemed to be of no help, and which I have no intention of using otherwise.
Still, here's a doozy of a misplaced adjectival clause that I found in the first paragraph of "President's Message" in the February/March issue of "Connecticut Lawyer," a glossy bi-monthly from the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA), Volume 23, No.6, p.4:
"Although the CBA and some its sections or committees will be introducing and lobbying for enactment of certain legislation, far more often the CBA will be lobbying against the passage of bills introduced by various legislators, sometimes merely as a courtesy to their constituents, which are considered by the CBA to be either ill-conceived or poorly executed."
Seems like these these constituents are either bastards or ill-hung.
Sincerely,
Marc Ford Greene