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).

Sunday 12 April 2015

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 78

From a smartphone BBC News report comes a missing apostrophe, and a puzzle: why use single quotation marks in the headline and doubles in the subhead? The online version has no subhead, but it too nonsensically varies its quotation marks with singles in the headline and doubles in the body of the piece…

Source: BBC News for smartphone

pounds worth + interchangeable single & double quotation marks

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Sunday 12 April 2015

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 78

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