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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Saturday, 12 April 2014
The Wrong Word Entirely, # 40
This extract comes from an article posted on a telecommunications company’s intranet. The key mangle — Cf. this mangle from last year — may be a misapprehension or a typographical error:
free reign; practise for practice
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