Double-take, # 52

Someone on the database team seems very confused over this author’s name (and gender):

Link: Amazon, Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau, Men at War 1914—1918 […]

The shortcomings of optical character recognition explain (but do not excuse) Sta(c)Phane and St Phane, but Stephanie remains a puzzle.Stephanie Audoin-Rouzeau; Sta(c)Phane Audoin-Rouzeau; St Phane Audoin-Rouzeau for Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau

Double-take, # 51

The BBC doling out misinformation in series 4 of Shaun the Sheep:

Edited from screenshot of BBC iPlayer 21 February 2014.
Information now replaced by subsequent programming information

As Des Pond of Slough observes, a spider is not an insect.
a spider is not an insect

Not Washed or Cooked, # 115

The BBC mangling spelling in Death in Paradise, series 3, episode 6 (‘The Early Bird’):

tresspassers

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 113

Dr Faustus has come upon this gem:

Stephen S. S. Hyde,  Cured! The Insider’s Handbook for Health Care Reform (Denver, CO: HobNob Publishing, 2009), p. 262. Link: GoogleBooks

infarction for infraction; criminal infarction

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 112

Brian Appleyard briefly takes his eye off the ball in a review of Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us by Jesse Bering:

Link: The Times (subscription access only), ‘Review: Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us […]’

thought for though

Double-take, # 50

Dr Faustus today turns his attention to a problematic preposition:

Link: BBC News, ‘The Papers’, 15 February 2014

in to for into: in to second place

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 31

Dr Faustus continues in his quest to root out apostrophe catastrophes. Today’s comes from a review published in The Oxford Student:

Link: The Oxford Student, ‘Breathing Corpses has no skeletons in the closet […]’

It transpires that it’s occurs frequently in the review, but in the other six examples, the apostrophe is correctly inserted. There’s also another its, but that one is correct. These, therefore, seem to be an aberration…

its for it’s: its because its not

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 34

Link: ThreatPost, ‘Certificates Spoofing Google, Facebook, GoDaddy Could Trick Mobile Users’

How unkind of them.
mocking legitimate certs

Double-take, # 49

Link: The Times (subscription access only), ‘It was a mistake to stop dredging […]’

Surely calls can’t be anything but vocal, so how can their vocalness (vocality? Vocalisticness?) increase? increasingly vocal calls

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 30

Dr Faustus spotted this in his Facebook newsfeed:

Link: Facebook (member access only), post at Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 13:20

Why not opportunity’s and wage’s?
Cook’s & Chief Cook’s

Not Washed or Cooked, # 114

Kittens with a mangled caption:

Link: CSL Cartoon Stock | Balls Of Yarn Cartoons and Comics | Balls Of Yarn cartoon 1 of 5

actuallly

Not Washed or Cooked, # 113

Whoops!

Link: University of Warwick, Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, ‘Essay Deadlines’

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