Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 222

Ryan McCarthy spotted this on the menu at The Fox on The Hill, a Wetherspoon pub in Denmark Hill, London:

Cartmel for Caramel OR Cartmel sticky toffee pudding for Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding

Not Washed or Cooked, # 272

Ryan McCarthy found this mangle on Amazon:

Link: Amazon UK

clork for clock

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 181

Ryan McCarthy spotted a typographical error (now corrected) in this caption:

Link: BBC News, ‘How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10’

Minters for Miners

Double-take, # 159

Ryan McCarthy has caught out The Independent in an unfortunate template error and, as it turns out, an arithmetical one too:

Source: The Independent, 26 May, 2015, p. 5

dummy text in template display box

Not Washed or Cooked, # 206

A mangle from Ryan McCarthy:

Source: The Independent, Section 2/Features, ‘Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Me’ (3 February, 2015), p. 37

The error has been faithfully reproduced in the online version:

Link: The Independent, ‘Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Me’

lates

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 159

This blissful mangle comes via Ryan McCarthy:

Source: Philip’s World Atlas, 2006 Edition (London: Philip’s, 2005), p. 48

As Ryan says, ‘Who knew a book could be frightened?’

Koran, the scared book of the Muslims

Double-take, # 80

New contributor Ryan McCarthy found this in Bristol, in a hotel that remains nameless because ‘It was nice so I don’t mean to damage their reputation!’ Fair enough.

Leaving aside the American spelling (‘It was an American-themed restaurant’), Ryan is pretty sure this is a mangle and I’m pretty sure he’s right:

world of port