Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Multimangle, # 14

Dr Faustus has sent this well-mangled paragraph from an Irish website, appropriately called Balls, announcing a competition to win Six Nations tickets ‘with some very special extras’. These extras include an erroneous homophone, and confusion about whether the pronoun representing a company should be in the neuter singular form or — conflicting with the singular verb used — made plural:

Link: Balls, ‘Win 4 Tickets To Ireland v England With Some Very Special Extras’
bank as its & their; there for their

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