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, 14 February 2016

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 96

A moment’s aberration, a pesky homophone or a rather ineffectual eggcorn? Now corrected, as is the original URL based on it:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘“I could walk around starkers if I wanted to […]”’

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Mangling English: an occasional rant

Sunday, 14 February 2016

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 96

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