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).

Tuesday 11 November 2014

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 154

The printed Daily Telegraph marks Warwick University’s exoneration and reinstatement of Professor Thomas Docherty with a missing word:

Source: The Daily Telegraph, 25 October 2014, p. 17

The online text differs syntactically and thus avoids the omission; Docherty is referred to as ‘the English and Comparative Literature professor’, which avoids the need for an of. The reasons for the difference in capitalization are not obvious.

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Mangling English: an occasional rant

Tuesday 11 November 2014

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 154

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