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).

Thursday 13 August 2015

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 192

A spell-checker wouldn’t have identified this as an error and the writer seems not to have checked the text, as Dr Faustus discovered:

Link: PinkNews, ‘Poll finds that same-sex marriage was most popular Tory policy’

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Mangling English: an occasional rant

Thursday 13 August 2015

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 192

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