Multimangle, # 56

This does not reflect well on the writer, the education system, or an industry that largely seems to have decided that sub-editors aren’t necessary:

Link: SomersetLive, ‘Crocs are Bad for Your Health Say Experts, as Patients Complain of Heel Pain on Daily Basis’

footwear that are Crocs; [punctuation]

Multimangle, # 55

Another unsolicited email, with a rather naive subject line, from the inbox of Dr Faustus:

write you; no for not; 30mins; if you have interest in know what the job entails [omitted articles; comma splices]

Multimangle, # 54

Dubious grammar and punctuation:

Link: The Scotman, ‘Scots Students Losing out to English at Home Universities’

number … are + punctuation

Multimangle, # 53

A veritable cornucopia of mangles!

Link: Honeywell VT117 Traditional Flow Radiator Thermostat, ‘Installation and User Instruction’ leaflet

temerature, guideance, decorators cap, cle-aning, sea-ting, seperate

Multimangle, # 52

Many a mangle in this advertisement for the Fox Inn, Lutterworth:

Link: Rugby Observer, 19 May, 2016, p. 16

resturaunt, extensiver, your'e [+ random capitalization, punctuation & syntax]

Multimangle, # 49

A weekend variety pack:

Link: The Swindonian, ‘Lottery winners not too happy’

Saturdays draw; jut for just; punctuation; comma splice

Multimangle, # 48

Des Pond of Slough has now taken several online courses, of which the latest, delivered by Future Learn, is ‘From World War to White Heat: the RAF in the Cold War’, a collaboration by Royal Air Force [RAF] Museums and the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, under the guidance of Dr Ross Mahoney, Aviation Historian, RAF Museum, and Dr Emmett Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in History, Royal Holloway.

Des is usually full of praise for these courses, but this one has been dogged by badly-finished written materials. Submitting this example, Des remarks: ‘This is after typos had been pointed out by several people, so this is the corrected version.’

deminished; in for of, & boarders for borders

Multimangle, # 46

The first of a short series of seasonal mangles. Today’s come from a blog that seems to have been created quite recently. The author is not identified.

Link: Happy Easter Bunnies Chocolate Rabbit Photos & Pictures 2016,
‘Happy Easter Sunday Activities For Children’s 2016’

Celebrations on the holy week; Munday Thursday; last super; So friends we hope that you have done all the latest all the latest collection for you. faces on near and dear ones

Other Englishes, # 4

I’m guessing that the writer of this spam email is not a native speaker of English, but I can’t decide quite how this range of mangles, spanning subject line to sign-off, has arisen:

you get new tax refund from GOV, You'are, An payment, King Regards

Multimangle, # 44

This much-mangled and puzzlingly retro webpage comes via Mo Juste, who comments: ‘I found a website about Abington Park, probably Northampton’s “jewel”, and thought how awful it looked. So I clicked on the web designer’s link. I leave the rest to you’ — quite a lot of ‘rest’, too!

Link: Mad Dezign

customize you website idea’s to a simple user friendly look, whilst not losing the concepts of the site you want to look like; who don't want the bother or spending huge amounts; easy to work with, whilst, maintaining a profession feel; heavy code

Multimangle, # 43

In amongst this bunch of mangles is one appropriate for St David’s Day:

Link: Chadwicks flowers, ‘English indoor dafodills’

dafodills; Chadwicks; Valentines Day; Mothers Day; foliages

Multimangle, # 42

This Google snapshot of its webpages suggests that J. D. Wetherspoon is having trouble harmonizing its corporate identity, amongst other things:

Link: Google search on ‘Wetherspoon’

Wetherspoon, founded in 1979 is a national chain across the whole of the UK & Ireland, with our award winning pubs & hotels, we are […]; Wetherspoon has […]; Wetherspoon have […]; Wetherspoon’ Pubs

Multimangle, # 41

From the backlog of Dr Faustus, who described it as ‘a dubious charity pitch letter’:

one of our fundraiser; work for the orphans, people living under the poverty; increasing the number of pupil; a grand success; also works along with helping people with Alzheimer’s and supporting those that care for Alzheimer’s disease; teaming up with us by cooperating to reach our goals

Multimangle, # 40

Today’s mangle of ‘appropriate’, which may be an unchecked error rather than a typographical slip, comes from a German university and brings for company some dubious syntax and grammar:

Link: CENIDE (Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen), ‘PhD project’ breadcrumb

apropirate; candidates for PhD theses which have a master’s degree; syntax

Multimangle, # 39

Today’s contributor, Mo Juste, comments: ‘A friend posted this on Facebook recommending anyone going into Northampton General Hospital to go for the Halal menu (and quite rightly so).’

fedding for feeding; commas for heftier punctuation; only […] only; general syntax

Not Washed or Cooked, # 283

The Old Hand & Diamond Inn’s menu, featured yesterday, does not confine its mangles to Scottish food and drink:

Link: The Old Hand & Diamond Inn, Coedway

rasberry, rosemay for rosemary (twice), course for coarse; stilton for Stilton

Multimangle, # 37

Saluting the Scots poet for a second day with some more unfortunate spellings, although this time the apostrophe mangles are avoided as Burns is not mentioned :

Link: The Old Hand & Diamond Inn, Coedway

hagis, whiskey

Multimangle, # 36

In a short seasonal interlude, today’s and tomorrow’s mangles relate to the annual commemoration of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, a commemoration irregularly marked with an apostrophe. Here is an announcement for last year’s festivities from the Morgan Arms in London:

Link: Metropolitan Pub Company, Morgan Arms, Burns’ Night 2015

kneeps for neeps, e for and, & whisky’s as plural [plus Burns Night]

Multimangle, # 34

This is horribly mangled:

Link: Medievalists.net, ‘Why Tolkien’s Beowulf is an “amazing book but a terrible translation”’

“a horrible, horrible, horrible translation” one that; The translation was made by Tolkien in the 1920s and intended it to be “crib notes” that was to be used

Multimangle, # 33

Received by a surprised Dr Faustus, who barely knows where to start (mangle-wise, that is), but is especially taken by the use of apostrophes, which certainly does ‘look unusual for’ him…

O’k; embroider for embroidery; It may look unusual foryou; I live in a small city. but I would like to see the world; I love to walk around the pair; foto; Now, I’m end