Today features an extremely common mangle. The examples are all taken from professional sources.
The first can be found on the website of a self-improvement community, which also seems challenged by a lack of hyphens:
The next one comes from the English-language website of a high school in Manila, and provides an image of the the correctly-spelt book cover. The screenshot includes, in the column on the right, a bonus it’s-not-phrased-as-a-question-but-we’ll-give-it-a-question-mark-and-that’ll-sort-it heading:
This one, which also comes with a second mangle, is extracted from a page of details about ‘Priority Management programs’ offered by a bilingual training company based in Montreal:
There are variations on the theme. This is from the digital TransWorld Business Magazine:
You can mange things other than time, of course. People, for instance:
You can mange an office, or help mange one:
You can specialize:
Or you can break into marketing, starting as an assistant —
— and working up to become the subject of an article in a trade publication:
You can be trained for a career:
However, since the term mange exists (it is a skin disease afflicting animals, such as horses and dogs), if your work is connected with animals it’s wise to take particular care with words, perhaps checking a dictionary as well as a spell-checker, and looking at any further information that might help, such as the spelling on a logo:
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