Friday 27 February 2015

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 165

A mangle found on the National Portrait Gallery website proves, on further investigation, to be heinously widespread:

Link: National Portrait Gallery, ‘Hon. Julian Henry Francis Grenfell’

A Google search for ‘solider-poet’ returned 1,510 results, as well as asking ‘Do you mean: “soldier-poet”’ (without a question mark). These examples from the results come from academic books:

Link: Google, search "solider-poet"
solider for soldier

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