Not Washed or Cooked, # 190

Today’s seasonal mangles demonstrate a heinous lack of care in the world of education, and cover all levels. The first, pre-school, ‘Christams’ example has brought several friends:

Link: Busy Bees, Manchester — Fallowfield,  ‘Decorate a Christams [sic] bauble’

In addition to the hideous apostrophe catastrophes and other mangles is the header’s odd-sounding ‘Established since 1983’, which should read ‘Established in 1983’ or simply ‘Established 1983’.

We now move on from nursery to primary school:

Link: Hodthorpe Primary School, Worksop,  ‘Christams [sic] Concerts’

Link: Bowerhill Primary School, Melksham, ‘Santa’s Christams [sic] Sparkle Disco’

Here‘s the heading of a secondary school’s seasonally-themed homework exercise, nicely mangled by a teacher:

Link: Tiverton High School, ‘A Christams [sic] Carol — images’

Finally, a mangle from a university whose close traditional links with the service in question should have given it much practice in spelling ‘Christmas’ (and also in capitalizing titles correctly):

Link: King’s College Cambridge, Choir Recordings, ‘Nine Lessons and Carols (2012)’

Christams [selection]