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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Tuesday, 31 May 2016

Not Washed or Cooked, # 311

This mangle comes, via Dr Faustus, from an examination on the course in Teaching English as a Foreign Language offered by the Centre for Languages & International Education at University College London:

metholodology

Monday, 6 July 2015

Not Washed or Cooked, # 237

As Dr Faustus has discovered, UCL — that’s University College London — has apparently dispensed with both spell-checking and proofreading in its email communications to its customers, resulting, here at least, in some frankly embarrassing mangles of words and punctuation. These emails both relate to the same ‘purchase’ or ‘order’, which is actually a booking, and it is notable that only one bothers with a salutation:

approriate; furture reference; details of your query quoting