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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Thursday 16 July 2015
Mangling Meaning, # 33
Is this ambiguity, redundancy or plain confusion in a promotional email from TomTom? Des Pond of Slough wonders: ‘Does “at once” mean immediately or simultaneously here? Is it “quickly” or “multiple” that is being rendered superfluous?’
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