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).

Saturday, 22 August 2015

You Cannot Be Serious, # 52

I have one answer, but it is nothing to do with the subject of the article…

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Camila Batmanghelidjh and the rise of the egotistical altruist’

If Wikipedia is correct in stating that this writer attended schools in Kew and Kensington, and then went to University College London (UCL), the mangle cannot be excused as a dialectal variant or idiosyncracy.

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Mangling English: an occasional rant

Saturday, 22 August 2015

You Cannot Be Serious, # 52

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