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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Saturday 2 May 2015
Mangling Meaning, # 30
One from John Holloway. He didn’t say where he found it, but he did comment: ‘Preposition errors can make SUCH a difference to the meaning!’
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