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…
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Tuesday, 21 April 2015
You Cannot Be Serious, # 44
This mangle has already been featured a few times and, as before, it’s the source of the error that makes it particularly reprehensible. This one, contributed by Dr Faustus, comes from a closed questionnaire on the website of an academic publisher:
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