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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Friday 2 January 2015
You Cannot Be Serious, # 33
Sometimes mangles appear in the supermarket queue next to me, as recently happened in Lidl… This mangle seems to arise from misunderstanding the name of the second added ingredient:
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