Apostrophe catastrophe, # 116

Via Tim Matter, an apostrophe catastrophe on the menu of The Countryman in Staverton. As the second screenshot shows, the pub’s website also has mangled apostrophes, while an adjacent date suggests that review/update schedules are being ignored:

Link: The Countryman, ‘Food’

Taylors, coffee's; menu's x2

Not Washed or Cooked, # 308

Smoothly following on from yesterday’s contribution, in which an academic institution used unedited copy to promote a course on editing, today’s mangle was found, by Dr Faustus, on the blog of a journalism website:

Link: Brighton Journalist Works, ‘YOU Magazine to Red, Alumna Emma Laurence’s Journey to Freelance Writing’

Jounalism

Multimangle, # 51

Another mangle variety-pack from Dr Faustus:

Link: England’s North East, ‘Roots, Dialect and Place-names’

80 %; 30 %; comaprison; continuosly

Double-take, # 219

This new take on Easter comes from a blog which, although its title refers to husband and wife, seems from its style to be written by a woman with her children very much in mind:

Link: A Curry of a Life: The Adventures of Christine and Lyndon, ‘Monday, 1 April 2013, Easter Weekend’

Waster for Easter

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 228

Today’s seasonal offering brings a range of mangles wrapped a short paragraph and finished with an astoundingly apt typographical slip:

Link: Community Restaurants’ Blog, ‘So how well did Restaurants do this Easter?’

the the; thats; 16830000; Fifty one; holiday themed buffet; in that order respectively; traditional Eater meal

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

Multimangle, # 46

The first of a short series of seasonal mangles. Today’s come from a blog that seems to have been created quite recently. The author is not identified.

Link: Happy Easter Bunnies Chocolate Rabbit Photos & Pictures 2016,
‘Happy Easter Sunday Activities For Children’s 2016’

Celebrations on the holy week; Munday Thursday; last super; So friends we hope that you have done all the latest all the latest collection for you. faces on near and dear ones

Double-take, # 216

Not washed, cooked or even very believable — and yet it exists!

Link: Multilizer.com

docuemtns + syntax

Multimangle, # 43

In amongst this bunch of mangles is one appropriate for St David’s Day:

Link: Chadwicks flowers, ‘English indoor dafodills’

dafodills; Chadwicks; Valentines Day; Mothers Day; foliages

Not Washed or Cooked, # 282

Dr Faustus sends this glaring mangle:

Link: Bitesize Irish Gaelic, ‘How David White Got Into Irish Gealic (Ep. 56)’

Gealic for Gaelic

Multimangle, # 34

This is horribly mangled:

Link: Medievalists.net, ‘Why Tolkien’s Beowulf is an “amazing book but a terrible translation”’

“a horrible, horrible, horrible translation” one that; The translation was made by Tolkien in the 1920s and intended it to be “crib notes” that was to be used

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

Double-take, # 205

From the Dr Faustus backlog, here is a lovely bit of confusion from the ITV website:

Link: ITV.com, ‘Louisa Johnson sings her Winner'’s Song — Forever Young’

Louisa Johnson … his version

Not Washed or Cooked, # 280

Today’s mangle (actually two, plus the slew of exclamation marks) has been waiting in the archive folder for a suitable time:

Link: Our Lady of Victory Catholic School, Chicago, Mrs Kumala’s Preschool Class blog

Chritmsas; everyday for every day

Not Washed or Cooked, # 274

This, as Dr Faustus says, is a gem:

Link: HoldTheFront Page.co.uk, ‘New version of Editors’ Code published following post-Leveson overhaul’

acccuracy

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 92

This was submitted by John Holloway, with the caption ‘Horseplay at Skyscanner?’ It is a companion mangle to one featured last year (12 April, 2014). It may be a typographical error; this time there is certainly no possibility of allowing it as an eggcorn:

Link: Skyscanner, ‘Carry on: readers’ opinions on cabin luggage restrictions’

confusion reins

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 102

The apostrophe’s absence seems somehow worsened by the inclusion of a possessive intensifier:

Link: Halfords, ‘Winter Demister Bundle’

your vehicles own heating system

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 194

Here, via Dr Faustus, is another mangle that only proofreading would flag:

Link: Wikipedia.org, ‘Constitution of the United Kingdom’

statue for statute

Multimangle, # 22

Two clippings from one page of a small commercial website, spotted by Snazz. The first offers two versions of a word, misspelt both times, and the second contains several minor mangles and a sen­tence that displays more passion than intelligibility:

Link: Atelier Garden Studios, ‘Vista Garden Studios’

 

panneling; pannelling; Whats more, our time honoured precision engineering skills, respect & nurture -these materials, resulting in a garden studio which blends with nature to become indoors and outdoor in one space.-

Not Washed or Cooked, # 243

Other available languages include English:

Link: Languatics, French

couses for courses