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).

Sunday, 27 July 2014

Not Washed or Cooked, # 156

It’s hard to tell what the writer thought he was doing in the second paragraph of this BBC news report, contributed by Des Pond of Slough:

Link: BBC News, ‘Stratford shop crash: Ex-magistrate banned’

Marks’s for Marks; broke bones

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Sunday, 27 July 2014

Not Washed or Cooked, # 156

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