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 23 July 2013
Not Washed or Cooked, # 46
Today’s example comes from The Guardian’s Capital Letters consumer troubleshooting column:
The mangle is reprehensible, since it’s been subject to neither spell-checking nor proofreading; but, in the context of the mangle, the opening sentence of the consumer champion’s response is sublime.
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