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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Saturday 29 March 2014
Not Washed or Cooked, # 121
A recent marking email brought a homophonic mangle, two spell-checking failures and some unfortunate punctuation:
there for their; secruity for security; vunerable for vulnerable
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