The Wrong Word Entirely, # 87

Dr Faustus has submitted this homophonic mangle, which is a fairly common error and which the blog has featured a few times. There is also a split infinitive, which some find inelegant at best, and the clarity of ‘support shirts’ seems dubious — support stockings I’ve heard of, but not shirts:

Link: The Huffington Post, ‘School Backtracks After Suspending Student […]’

principle for principal; support shirts; to automatically expel

Right word, wrong form, # 3

Someone at The Huffington Post needs to revise irregular verbs:

Link: The Huffington Post UK, ‘Iain Duncan Smith Knows He Is A “Hate Figure”’

For reference, Reverso is a useful online source for checking the correct conjugation of verbs in several languages, including English.

casted doubt

Not Washed or Cooked, # 83

This heading from the Canadian Huffington Post

Link: The Huffington Post — Canada, ‘A Rain Storm of Good and Bad News for Global Markets’

seems to be caught between markets and meerkats. Use a spellchecker — simples!