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).

Monday, 20 April 2015

Multimangle, # 15

Another contribution from Dr Faustus. This press release, reproduced verbatim on the Coombe Monthly website, offers a confusion of dates, some odd diction and punctuation, and, as both heading and subject line, a couple of nasty apostrophe catastrophes:

The Lib-Dems have sold us out, we need a workers MP on a workers wage; TUSC supporters held a protest yesterday (Monday 4 April) to protest […]; email date 7 April, press release date 7 March

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Monday, 20 April 2015

Multimangle, # 15

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