Mangling English: an occasional rant

Businesses that don't bother checking their websites, journalists who write gibberish and balderdash, professionals who can't take the extra time and effort to spell-check and proofread, newspapers that turn tragedy into farce through solecisms, plus the odd guide to solving common grammatical difficulties… Contributions and suggestions welcome. (… Also corrections if required, obviously!) Send to: manglingenglishATgmxDOTcom, stating your nom de mangle (if desired).

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Thursday, 30 July 2015

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 86

Another from Suzanne Sirett. It isn’t clear from the report whether the text was supplied as a written or spoken quotation, so there’s a choice over where the mangle originates:

Link: ABC News, ‘Andrew Laming's senior media adviser, Fiona Edwards, defects to Labor’

indiscrete for indiscreet

Saturday, 25 July 2015

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 85

Suzanne Sirett found this mangle on the Facebook page of ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The corresponding webpage has been corrected, but the second graphic below (a screenshot of the top result from an Internet search) shows that the error was originally there. It is difficult to tell whether the mangle is a typographical error or an eggcorn:

Link: Facebook, ABC News, post of 14 July, 2015, at 11.44

Source: Google search on "Protestor Helen Bayes told the ABC they were baring", 14 July, 13:02

baring witness