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 28 May 2013
Mangling Meaning, # 12
Of course, it's not just the Consumer Champions who have occasional problems with expression; their correspondents sometimes come up with some very strange syntactical constructions:
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