Vice Commodore Pugwash spotted this notice by a fire alarm at the Defence Academy, and is justly amazed by ‘glass which knows who is authorised to break it!’
Only authorised persons able to break glass
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).
Link: BBC News, ‘“Trojan Horse”: Park View pupils “fed diet of Islam”’ |
Link: Coventry Telegraph, ‘Nearly 19,000 summons [sic] issued in Coventry […]’ |
Link: Northampton Chronicle & Echo, ‘Administration petition for Northampton Town […]’ |
Link: BBC News, ‘Swindon church service held for whale boat victims’ |
Link: QualitySolicitors, ‘My employer has not paid my wages – is there anything I can do?’ |
Link: BBC News, ‘Russian plane crash […]’ |
Link: Halfords, ‘Winter Demister Bundle’ |
Jean-Paul Sartre, Basic Writings, ed. by Stephen Priest (London & New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 16 |
Jean-Paul Sartre, Basic Writings, ed. by Stephen Priest (London & New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 3 |
Source: The College of Media and Publishing. ‘Do the NCTJ diploma with the experts’ |
Link: Rugby Observer (22 October, 2015), p. 1 |
Link: Rugby Observer (22 October, 2015), p. 7 |
Source: The Telegraph, breadcrumb to ‘Twitter had the best response to a lorry shedding a load of fish in Scotland’ |
Link: The Telegraph, ‘Motorist fined after council workers lifted her car onto double yellows’ |
Link: BBC News, ‘Northampton librarian praised for buying customer book’ |
Link: TripAdvisor, Review of Shajahan, ‘Never fails to disappoint’ |
Link: Open Gate Community, Church of the Nazarene (El Paso), Blog entry, ‘C. S. Lewis’ [sic] The Great Divorce and the Dungeon of the Mind’ |
Link: Eurostar.com, ‘Security on Eurostar?’ |
Link: The Telegraph, ‘Experts attack claims that bacon is “as big a cancer threat as smoking”’ |