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).

Monday, 28 October 2013

Double-take, # 26

Here is the rather perplexing opening line from a (fairly) recent advertisement by Morrisons:

Definitions from the Oxford Dictionaries website show that this is indeed a tautology:

Link: Oxford Dictionaries, ‘fillet’

Link: Oxford Dictionaries, ‘debone’

It may be, of course, that in fishmongers’ jargon, debone and fillet relate to different actions,* but of course the advertisement is aimed at the general reader…

* Does anyone know?

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Monday, 28 October 2013

Double-take, # 26

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