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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Wednesday 9 September 2015
Multimangle, # 25
This extract from a Co-operative in-store/staff circular, which comes via Dr Faustus, displays a wide range of mangles, including — but not limited to — misspellings, non-viable syntax, acyrologia and random punctuation:
there for their; trailed for trialled; evolve for involve; everyday for every day; we re set; incomplete sentence
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