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).

Thursday, 20 February 2014

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

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Thursday, 20 February 2014

Double-take, # 49

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