Friday 15 November 2013

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 93

Here’s a couple of examples of another mangle a spellchecker can’t pick up:

Link: MailOnline, ‘Attractive man wooed me […]’
Link: The Telegraph, ‘New query over HRT […]’

A staple of student essays, the error also occurs regularly in published texts, and even in writing by feminists:*

 
Link: The Times (subscription access only), ‘Fairy tale ending’

Link: The Guardian, ‘Why is feminism still so afraid to focus on its flaws?’


* It is rare, perhaps non-existent, in the masculine variant. If you have an example, you know where to send it!

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