Multimangle, # 53

A veritable cornucopia of mangles!

Link: Honeywell VT117 Traditional Flow Radiator Thermostat, ‘Installation and User Instruction’ leaflet

temerature, guideance, decorators cap, cle-aning, sea-ting, seperate

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

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 215

Given that it is reproduced all over the internet, it isn’t easy to work out where this mangle originated, but this recipe — usually marked ‘Recipe courtesy of Juan Rivas’ — has been copied verbatim, as these examples suggest:

Link: Food Network, ‘Grilled Pork Lion with Garlic Rosemary Marinade’

Link: Cooking Channel, ‘Grilled Pork Lion with Garlic Rosemary Marinade’

pork lion

Other Englishes, # 3

These rather mangled instructions, submitted by Dr Faustus, come with Apachie brand bluetooth sports headphones:

alternativley; audiable; either devices

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 51

Dr Faustus has found another catastrophic apostrophe:

Link: Saskia Sarginson, ‘Saskia’s Writing Tips’

The good doctor comments, with justifiable disgust: ‘Apostrophe catastrophe (downright ghastly… and a ****ing writing website too!).’ Clearly, Ms Sarginson should have quit while she was ahead (i.e., after the section title).

tips for writer’s

Right word, wrong form, # 2

Link: The University of Iowa Info Center [sic], ‘Creating a “White List” in Eudora — Article 2746’

It seems strange that a different method needs to be found then… Did the writer mean ‘daunting’? undaunting for daunting

Double-take, # 38

A stray comma precedes impossibility and confusion:

Link: Warwickshire Police Online News, ‘Computer users in Warwickshire and West Mercia warned […]’

Or as the contributor, Des Pond of Slough, succinctly put it: ‘Eh?’