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).

Friday 6 February 2015

You Cannot Be Serious, # 37

Mo Juste justly finds fault with this:

Link: YourNewsWire.com, ‘Man Who Predicted Swiss Euro Collapse Issues Dire Warning’

Mo comments: ‘An impressive triple variant on the spelling of predict. I especially like “predication”. Obviously the longer a word is the more intelligent the user.’ The writer also seems to be challenged by punctuation…

predication, predits [for prediction, predicts]; random hyphen; missing punctuation

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Friday 6 February 2015

You Cannot Be Serious, # 37

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