Not Washed or Cooked, # 249

Another unchecked typographical error, spotted by Kieron Hayes:

Link: Coventry Telegraph, ‘Sent From Coventry: The album that charted city's hidden music scene’

luminaires for luminaries

Double-take, # 120

Submitted by John Holloway (and a little later by Kieron Hayes), this is one of many questionnaires doing the rounds online, and here appears with the mangled Facebook wrapper:

As John points out, ‘Intelligence quotas are not percentages — and as for “your’s”!’
IQ 187%; your’s

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 150

Kieron Hayes has sent in this excellent mangle, commenting: ‘I’m assuming that they provide a marker pen for this role’:

The job posting seems to have originated with recruitment agency SF Group (‘seriously focussed on recruitment’), and the copy later provides an illogical shift in perspective (’The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in writing online copy across all platforms. You must have strong editorial and proofreading skills with a highly creative approach with the ability to captivate online audiences’). Investigation reveals that the key error (bogs for blogs) was corrected, but not before being reproduced online (in 27 places, according to Google). The appalling apostrophe catastrophe stands.

I have no idea whether it continues, but it used to be standard practice in some HR companies to rewrite CVs in their house style, sometimes with added errors. Many potential employers, of course, would have no idea that the errors were not the candidate’s own…

writing copy for the website, bogs and social media avenues; companies online marketing strategy

Not Washed or Cooked, # 155

Kieron Hayes has contributed this cracking mangle. It comes from the website of a website-design company that proves better at self-aggrandizement than at care in presentation:

Link: 5D Marketing Web Design and SEO

You can read a full appreciation of 5D Marketing’s website, and see several more mangles from it, on Kieron’s blog, Webwrite: Doing the Write Thing. (If it’s your kind of thing — and, since you’ve already demonstrated an interest in the mangling of English by arriving on this page, it might well be — you can also follow Webwrite on Facebook.)

cracking contents which written by an amazing writer