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 1 November 2014
Singular or Plural? # 13
We haven’t featured this mangle since March 2013, but its repeated use on the Nationwide Building Society’s website shows that it hasn’t gone away. Here’s one example:
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