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).

Sunday, 3 January 2016

Double-take, # 206

Using countries’ names adjectivally often feels odd and is arguably ungrammatical, and much more so with acronyms… and that’s not even the mangle here!

Link: The Telegraph, ‘The history of Guide Dogs for the Blind’

trained the first-ever UK and

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Sunday, 3 January 2016

Double-take, # 206

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