Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 230

Is this mangle a slip or an eggcorn? It comes from an item entirely based on an examination of posts on social media, a cheap, lazy and unsatisfactory method of ‘reporting’ that has now become ubiquitous:

Link: The Express, ‘Paxman Praised for Shining Light on REAL EU but Europhiles Complain of “BBC BIAS”’

bias for biassed/biased

Double-take, # 230

The writer of this report seems not to understand that a whole word does not work the same way as its abbreviation, and needs a space:

Link: Express, ‘Private Contractors Cost NHS, and Taxpayers, Millions in Botched Operations’

£9million, £3.2million, £33million, £52million; failures […] has

Double-take, # 223

The Express apparently driving the point home in February 2016 in this headline (now changed):

Link: The Express, ‘Right-wing fascists bring Liverpool to a standstill as violence erupts’

Later in the report came this gem:

Aside from the omission of the crucial hyphen (and why ‘right-wing’, but not ‘far-right’?), the verb ‘carrying out’ applied to saluting seems very odd, in a way that ‘performing’, or even ‘doing’, might not.

Right-wing fascists; carrying out far right salutes

Mangling Meaning, # 37

Incoherence verging on utter nonsense from The Express:

Link: The Express, ‘Outrage as Hotel Homes 300 Asylum Seekers — Without Telling Anyone’

asylum seekers have been housed in a major hotel without informing anyone; in what the authorities claim is on the sly

Double-take, # 115

A still-uncorrected error from last Friday’s online Express:

Link: Express, ‘Shoppers ordered to kneel on floor […]’

Mo Juste, who spotted the mangle, comments: ‘A despicable crime, indeed, but they’ll probably slip through the net quite easily.’

The report contains several other oddities, such as describing the malefactors as ‘balaclava-bearing’, which implies that they were carrying rather than wearing the headgear; and reporting an eyewitness as suggesting that the culprits ‘psyche [sic] themselves up on adrenaline’.

viscous thugs; psyche for psych; balaclava-bearing

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 129

We’ve had this mangle a few times before, but generally it has been buried in the smaller text. This instance, however, is rather blatant:

Link: Express, ‘RBS boss seems unaware of pubic opinion’

pubic opinion