The Wrong Word Entirely, # 110

This mangle, spotted by Dr Faustus, has now been corrected:

Link: BBC News, ‘Alton Towers Smiler Ride Reopens Nine Months After Horror Crash’

insure for ensure

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 109

A very odd use of a word here, in a sentence whose grammar is also dubious:

Source: Rugby Observer, ‘Violent Attacker to be Deported after Prison’ (19 May, 2016), p. 9; and online

suspect remains outstanding [+hoped that he may still be identified]

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

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 106

It’s not entirely clear what relevance being a dog owner has here, the concept of a canine facial seems bizarre, and the capitalization is inconsistent — and that is all in addition to the mangle!

nails for claws [dog groomer]

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 105

The writer knows what the right word is, as it appears in the final paragraph here, but the word used in second paragraph makes little sense, as Dr Faustus observes. There’s a hyphen missing too:

Link: BBC News, ‘Britons with “wrong passport” stopped from travelling to US’

biometric trip [for chip]; old style passport

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 104

A pesky homophone and a bilingual slip, via Des Pond of Slough:

Source: French Property News, 301 (March 2016), p. 57

electoral roll; vehicule for vehicle

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 103

Dr Faustus is unimpressed by what he calls an ‘insensitive mangle’ (though the insensitivity arguably begins with the headline, and ‘insensitive’ seems too generous a term):

Link: BBC News, ‘Memorial Service for Ben Nevis Death Climber Tim Newton’

exhibitions for expeditions

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 102

This mangle can be found on one of the banners adorning the Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome, promoting the ‘Once Were Romans’ exhibition. New-found Mangler, who spotted it, points out that, in Italian pronunciation, the correct English translation and this erroneous word would be almost homophonous:

leaps for lips

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 101

Unjust and incorrect!

Link: The New Times [Rwanda], ‘Cashless Bus Fair System Should Be Made Optional’

fair for fare

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 100

Another nonsensical preposition:

Link: The Sunday Times, ‘Archbishop Warns of Campus Anti-Semites’

echoes with for echoes of

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 99

A Good Friday mangle from the food database of a fitness website. It is not ultimately clear whether the misnaming of the foodstuff is due to a typographical error or to genuine confusion, but, as a bonus, the the name of the source is mangled too:

Link: myfitnesspal, ‘Calories in Wait rose Diet hot cross bum’

Wait rose Diet hot cross bum

Handritten, # 6

Gary Hazell is surprised by a description on the board of tasting notes for guest ales at the Gluepot public house in Swindon:

larger bitterness

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

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

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 97

Another pesky homophone (and a confused title):

Link: The Guardian, ‘In challenging homophobia, gay men have become our own oppressors’

routes for roots

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

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 95

I’ve saved this recent submission from Mo Juste for the anniversary of the last time he sent in an example of what may be the mangle that most annoys him:

Link: Udiscover, ‘The Godfathers of British Blues’

Mo Juste comments: ‘I can see that you’d write “You shouldn’t underestimate what Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner…”, but surely “It’s impossible to overestimate what Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner…” is what the writer meant.’

underestimate for overestimate

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 94

There seems to have been a confusion of concepts in this scam email. At least it says ‘message’:

Electric Message Center

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

Multimangle, # 32

From Des Pond of Slough, an omitted letter and an apostrophe that has apparently fallen from its rightful place into a later paragraph:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘The Crystal Maze returns […]’

crowfunding, six months time, it's for its