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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Monday 3 August 2015
Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 191
Dr Faustus has sent in this unfortunate BBC mangle, snapped from a smartphone. The report on the BBC webpage is phrased very differently, but a Google search suggests that the errors originated in a news feed issued by the BBC:
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