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).

Saturday, 28 November 2015

Double-take, # 198

It may resemble a plural noun, but it isn’t one… The correct word appears twice in the report:

Link: Coventry Telegraph, ‘Nearly 19,000 summons [sic] issued in Coventry […]’

summons for summonses

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Saturday, 28 November 2015

Double-take, # 198

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