Monday 15 July 2013

Not Washed or Cooked, # 45

Another day, another mangle… This comes from a list of selling points on a dental practice’s website:


Two nouns associated to form an adjective should be linked by a hyphen, not simply run into a single, new word. That would also give the spellchecker (if used) a chance, although basic proofreading should have picked the omission up.

On another page, the clinic has this rather odd construction:


Either ‘Some of the treatments we offer’, or ‘The treatments we offer include’. Not both.

The site offers more wincing-inducing moments, and this not very reassuring reassurance:


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