You Cannot Be Serious, # 65

It would seem, and it is confirmed by the webpage’s address, that the writer of this breadcrumb (the first screenshot below) decided that the writer of the headline (the second screenshot) had used the wrong preposition and so changed it, mangling the meaning in a rather hilarious manner. (Neither spells the playwright’s first name with a diaeresis, as he always did.)

Link: The Telegraph, ‘What It’s Like to Live with Noel [sic] Coward’s Garden’

What it’s Like to Live in Noel Coward’s Garden

Double-take, # 175

Dr Faustus has submitted this for the grammatical hideousness in the ‘If’ clause (actually not one, since it lacks a verb; it has now been corrected). However, since the item comes from ‘a magazine for the global citizen’, not a dedicated marketing publication, the jargonistic phrase ‘Customer Reactions’ seems inappropriate, as well as ungrammatical: the relation between the nouns should be shown by a possessive form. The opening paragraph revisits the ‘Nestlé problem’ mentioned earlier this week:

Link: Good, ‘Naked People Took Over a Coffee Shop […]’

your for you’re; ‘Customer Reactions’; Nestle for Nestlé

Double-take, # 131

This word came into English from French and, like most loanwords from French, lost its accent. As John Holloway has discovered, Disney — or at least some franchise riding on the back of Frozen — is trying, in its own mangled way, to put it back:

Decór