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).
Friday, 14 November 2014
Not Washed or Cooked, # 179
As promised yesterday, the second of two mangles spotted on a recent episode of BBC 1’s Watchdog, this time on a segment introducing a service offered by Moonpig.com:
Source: BBC 1 Watchdog, series 34, episode 2 (23 October 2014), at approximately 51 minutes
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