Mangling English: an occasional rant

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… Contributions and suggestions welcome. (… Also corrections if required, obviously!) Send to: manglingenglishATgmxDOTcom, stating your nom de mangle (if desired).

Friday 11 April 2014

Double-take, # 63

Source: BBC News for Android, and online at BBC News, ‘Xbox password flaw exposed by five-year-old boy’

It’s hard to tell from the journalist’s transcription whether this five-year-old boy said ‘Yeah!’ or ‘Yay!’, but he probably didn’t come out with the biblical ‘Yea’ … though you can expect him to be taking over the world sometime soon.

’I was like yea’

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Friday 11 April 2014

Double-take, # 63

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