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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Friday, 28 August 2015
Double-take, # 179
Another via John Holloway, ‘from the Internet somewhere’. Apart from the random capitalization, the list proceeds well until close to the end, when much becomes mangled:
driver … weighs up to 44 tonnes; random capitalization; punctuation; weights for weighs
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