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 1 February 2016
Multimangle, # 39
Today’s contributor, Mo Juste, comments: ‘A friend posted this on Facebook recommending anyone going into Northampton General Hospital to go for the Halal menu (and quite rightly so).’
fedding for feeding; commas for heftier punctuation; only […] only; general syntax
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