Wednesday, 25 June 2014

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 48

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Celia Walden has a little work done’

Having featured this mangle on January 27 and 28 this year, I had started to wonder how widespread it is: the instances I’d found (of which I included only a small sample) suggested it was an error localized to North America and South Africa. Today’s example, however, was printed in a British publication and is by a British writer, Celia Walden. According to her profile on her agent’s website, Walden was educated at Westminster School and Cambridge University, so really has no excuse for making errors like this.
taught for taut (reprise)

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