Friday 23 August 2013

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 17

Dr Faustus comments: ‘Worse than the actual news reported is this hideous apostrophe catastrophe.’ It had been corrected on the BBC News webpage by the time the Chief Mangler arrived, but a search revealed numerous remnants of its earlier incarnation, beginning with the BBC News page:


The Internet is unforgiving and has a long memory. Check before posting!

If you were wondering where the ‘His boss is Germany’s leader is’ sentence might be going, that hasn’t been corrected: 

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