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 3 April 2015
You Cannot Be Serious, # 42
If you’ve ever wondered how all those inked mangles arise, this is from an advertisement for a new tattoo shop in Rugby:
Source: Rugby Observer (19 March 2015), p. 3, and online
sureley, Tattoo’s & Artist’s [as plurals]; insuring for ensuring; random capitalization; punctuation problems
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