Double-take, # 188

So good you can do it twice, or intended to be a different course in Ancient History? (Don’t miss the unlikely-sounding title at the bottom of the list…)

Source: Northamptonshire County Council, ‘My County Council: Adult Learning Courses’, Autumn 2015—Spring 2016

duplicated course name (Ancient History – Egypt and Mesopotamia)

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 89

From the Simply Home Entertainment DVD catalogue (August 2014, p. 13):

it’s title; it’s fans’

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 190

This typological mangle has featured before, also in an academic publishing source. This example is both quite large and thus obvious, and pleasingly juxtaposed with the even larger correct version:

Link: JSTOR, The French Review, preview page of Valerie Raoul, ‘The Diary Novel: Model and Meaning in La Nausée’

dairy for diary

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 64

Following on from last Thursday’s heinous mangle in which a Rugby librarian had copied a book’s title, but added an apostrophe, here’s the Simply Entertainment cataloguer copying a programme title, but excising the apostrophe clearly and correctly shown on the DVD box:

Source: Simply Entertainment, August 2014, p. 40

Devils Whore

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 60

Ouch!

Source: Simply Entertainment, August 2014, p. 5

All Our Yesterday’s

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 58

From a brochure:

Source: Coopers of Stortford brochure, p. 39. Cf. online

worlds’ best

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 140

From a home-goods catalogue:

Link: Lakeland, ‘Extendable Cob Web [sic] Duster’

Cob web but not Lake land or extend able? It’s also worth observing that the descriptor in the text should be treated as a generic singular (goat’s hair) and, since it’s used adjectivally, hyphenated (goat’s-hair).

cob web; goats’ hair duster

Double-take, # 74

Simply Home Entertainment omitting things again:

Source: Simply Home Entertainment, June 2014, p. 4

working in a German.

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 126

A clipped style?

Source: Simply Home Entertainment, May 2014, p. 15

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