Double-take, # 235

A confusion of past forms (with bonus mangled syntax):

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Debtor days are over as BIS calls time on world credit binge’

rang for rung

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 107

Des Pond of Slough reads an article on the European Referendum, and asks: ‘Does Brexit mean giving up speaking English?’

Link: The Telegraph, ‘EU to Launch Kettle and Toaster Crackdown after Brexit Vote’

convict for commit

You Cannot Be Serious, # 67

This Telegraph report was scrapped and its address now redirects visitors to a page about bookies’ odds for bets on the weather for Easter 2016, although echoes of the original text still remain online. At the time this snapshot was taken, however, it seemed that the writer was already on vacation:

haolidaymakers

Double-take, # 226

Logically flawed:

Link: The Times, ‘Women Charged More on “Sexist” High Street’

identical children’s scooters are £5 more expensive in pink than in blue

You Cannot Be Serious, # 65

It would seem, and it is confirmed by the webpage’s address, that the writer of this breadcrumb (the first screenshot below) decided that the writer of the headline (the second screenshot) had used the wrong preposition and so changed it, mangling the meaning in a rather hilarious manner. (Neither spells the playwright’s first name with a diaeresis, as he always did.)

Link: The Telegraph, ‘What It’s Like to Live with Noel [sic] Coward’s Garden’

What it’s Like to Live in Noel Coward’s Garden

You Cannot Be Serious, # 64

The Telegraph hedging its spelling bets again:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Holiday Money: The Ultimate Guide to Buying’

bureaus; bureaux

You Cannot Be Serious, # 62

Des Pond of Slough has submitted this recent breadcrumb from The Telegraph’s homepage, asking: ‘If you lose a loss, isn’t that a gain?’

lost 22pc loss

Double-take, # 220

It must be the price of all that technology that has resulted in these Telegraph ‘kids’ improbably having to share a room… Not to worry: they aren’t actually sharing. The writer of the breadcrumb has saved space by deleting the final s of the headline:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Here’s How Much All the Tech in Your Kids’ Bedrooms Has Cost You’

kids’ bedroom for kids’ bedrooms

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 111

Running since 1950, and discussed regularly in the news, this radio soap’s title is The Archers…

Link: The Telegraph, ‘The Archer’s [sic] domestic abuse plot […]’

The Archer’s

Mangling Meaning, # 35

How many people have been arrested? (Headline and subhead have now been carefully rewritten to resolve the confusion.)

Link: The Telegraph, ‘French police “arrest man with guns in suitcase” […]’

Man arrested […] another woman arrested with him

Mangling Meaning, # 34

‘I can’t even begin to make sense of this,’ writes Des Pond of Slough:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘“Mummified” body of adventurer found in abandoned yacht to be identified by sailor’s daughter’

he last heard of him ago on social media for his birthday

Not Washed or Cooked, # 298

It’s hard to tell what the writer was thinking about to produce this unchecked mangle:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Joan Bakewell: Women such as Charlotte Proudman complain too much’

instince for instinct

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 98

One wrong word and some dicky punctuation:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Tony Blackburn to launch personal libel action against BBC director-general Tony Hall’

A7 = acronym; unneeded comma

Not Washed or Cooked, # 297

This article on Internet security omits a crucial piece of advice, though accidentally demonstrates the point: make sure you type your crafty password correctly…

Link: The Telegraph, ‘The passwords most likely to get you hacked’

unusal

Not Washed or Cooked, # 296

Des Pond of Slough submitted this entry from the ‘Featured Video’ list of yesterday’s Telegraph homepage, commenting, ‘Not with a bhang?’

wimper

Not Washed or Cooked, # 295

An oddity:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Angry homeowner gets revenge on commuter who parked in her driveway’

driveaway for driveway

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

Not Washed or Cooked, # 294

Accompanied by a superb example of superfluous illustration, this mangle has now been corrected:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Gang pockets thousands of pounds after doctoring private school bills, police warn’

Hamsptead

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 96

A moment’s aberration, a pesky homophone or a rather ineffectual eggcorn? Now corrected, as is the original URL based on it:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘“I could walk around starkers if I wanted to […]”’

peace of mind

Double-take, # 207

An apostrophe catastrophe and a strange choice of preposition:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Protein World […] more sexist than ever’

its for it's & between for during