Double-take, # 234

Via Dr Faustus:

Link: Twitter, @SkyNews (16 May, 2016)

the UK’s UK’s driverless cars

You Cannot Be Serious, # 51

This pair of adjacent Twitter posts fits nicely into an ongoing thread (here and in discussion on the blog’s Facebook page) on notional agreement, most recently featured last weekend. The contributor, Des Pond of Slough, comments: ‘At least they’re consistent. Kinda sorta.’

Link: Twitter.com, Warwickshire Police, 20 August 2015

unit have; are one

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 178

Media Twitter feeds — unsurprisingly — regularly feature mangles, such as this one:

Link: Guardian Twitter feed

spark for park

Not Washed or Cooked, # 58

This gem appeared in a piece about summarizing classic books for the Twitter age:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Classic books in 140 characters’

The error has now been corrected, probably because so many commentators mentioned it. (On this topic, it’s notable that edits are not logged on Telegraph webpages: only the original publication data are shown. This makes a nonsense of comments relating to errors that are subsequently corrected.)

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 21

Des Pond of Slough has submitted this Tweet, which is accidentally about selling bicycles…

Link: Twitter, Warwickshire Police, SNT Rugby Town North