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).
Simultaneously reading and writing well seems over-ambitious for pupils of any nationality. Perhaps the conjunction should be or rather than and… although the alteration doesn't make the construction feel any more like a headline.
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