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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Sunday 18 January 2015
Double-take, # 127
I‘ve seen several examples of these cut-off-before-the-end mangles recently. Some render the text completely meaningless; this one results in an accidental paraprosdokian:
Source: The Daily Telegraph, 15 November, 2014, p. 19
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