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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Monday 9 September 2013
Mangling Meaning, # 17
This is the Android version of another BBC item that was published without adequate proofreading:
It was subsequently corrected on the webpage, but not until it had been disseminated widely across the long-memoried and unforgiving Internet…
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