Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 232

‘CitizenChip’, who might well hide behind a pseudonym, has mistaken the prepositional verb crack down on for the noun crackdown, both of which take the preposition on, and follows this up with some dubious syntax and a typographical error:

Link: GloucestershireLive

crack down for crackdown; of for on; area for area; [syntax]

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 231

Clearly a mistype here, although arguably the word that should have been typed isn’t quite what’s meant either:

Link: The Scotman, ‘Edinburgh Man Accused of Mock Crucifixion of Co-worker’

complaint for compliant [but arguably compliant not right either]

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

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 229

From Dr Faustus (and now corrected):

Link: BBC News, ‘Can the Micro Bit Inspire a Million?’

lunch for launch

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 228

Today’s seasonal offering brings a range of mangles wrapped a short paragraph and finished with an astoundingly apt typographical slip:

Link: Community Restaurants’ Blog, ‘So how well did Restaurants do this Easter?’

the the; thats; 16830000; Fifty one; holiday themed buffet; in that order respectively; traditional Eater meal

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 227

It’s all very well being authoritative and expert, but the little words matter too, and a spell-checker wouldn’t flag this error:

Giuseppe Palumbo, Key Terms in Translation Studies (London and New York: Continuum, 2009), p. 20.
Online: Google Books

Keep of the grass

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 226

From Dr Faustus comes this slip on the keyboard, preceded by some exceedingly bad syntax:

Link: BBC News, ‘La Familia Mexican drug cartel founder killed’

tears for years; the Christian military order of the Middle Ages of the same name

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 225

Via Dr Faustus, a sad juxtaposition of vaunting and mangling:

Link: Unreal City Audio, ‘About Us’ page

a cathartic voyages

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 224

Here is another university mangling an announcement for its Teaching Excellence Awards. This one comes via the inbox of Dr Faustus:

lecturers for lectures + syntax

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 223

This display quotation is both mangled and banal:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Parents who stole charity laptops from cancer ward before blaming their terminally-ill son face jail’

us for use

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

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 221

The last of the competency-test mangles submitted by Dr Faustus contains more spelling errors, more random capitalization and an ill-checked interrogative formulation:

Source: Numerical Reasoning Test

passanger, carrage, which how much more; capitalization

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 220

More competency test mangles from Dr Faustus. Today’s example seems to be mainly about random capitalization, although ‘£1000-worth’ might better express the purchases, or reordering resulting in ‘at £1000’:

Source: Numerical Reasoning Test

Rice; august; Maize; £1000 of Rice/Maize

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 218

Dr Faustus seems to have been doing some online competency tests, and finding various mangles. Today’s include an accidental substitute, some American spelling that seems to have crept onto the global company’s British website, a stray bit of code, and some rather dubious logic:

Source: CEB — SHL Talent Measurement

traveled; causalities for casualties; [+ logic + <]

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 217

Another mangled Facebook meme:

Link: Facebook, Unusual Facts

quite for quiet

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 216

Dr Faustus, still unimpressed by Waterstones abandoning its apostrophe, doesn’t think much of its staff’s proofreading abilities either:

for those can attend

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 215

Given that it is reproduced all over the internet, it isn’t easy to work out where this mangle originated, but this recipe — usually marked ‘Recipe courtesy of Juan Rivas’ — has been copied verbatim, as these examples suggest:

Link: Food Network, ‘Grilled Pork Lion with Garlic Rosemary Marinade’

Link: Cooking Channel, ‘Grilled Pork Lion with Garlic Rosemary Marinade’

pork lion

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 214

Dr Faustus recently found this mangle on the application form for the graduate trainee scheme of The Financial Times. He comments: ‘Can’t believe the FT can’t proofread...’ It has to be said that the syntax isn’t prime quality either:

proved for provide

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 213

Dr Faustus found this mangle (now corrected) amongst the media‘s tributes to Alan Rickman:

Link: The Guardian, ‘Alan Rickman, giant of British screen and stage, dies at 69’

carton for cartoon

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 212

A couple of avoidable mangles, via Dr Faustus:

Link: Bettany Hughes, Historian, Author, Broadcaster, ‘About Bettany’

100 Global Woman; his written extensively