Multimangle, # 39

Today’s contributor, Mo Juste, comments: ‘A friend posted this on Facebook recommending anyone going into Northampton General Hospital to go for the Halal menu (and quite rightly so).’

fedding for feeding; commas for heftier punctuation; only […] only; general syntax

Double-take, # 159

Ryan McCarthy has caught out The Independent in an unfortunate template error and, as it turns out, an arithmetical one too:

Source: The Independent, 26 May, 2015, p. 5

dummy text in template display box

Now Try It In English, # 5

Another from the inbox of Dr Faustus, and presumably based on the council’s template for calls to interview. Note that the ‘person to ask for’ was edited out, and is not an omission:

Test will be required to undertake on the day

Not Washed or Cooked, # 170

Dr Faustus found this typographical error in a survey:

The final sentence doesn’t read well either, with its cumbersome ‘You are able’ and its superfluous ‘different’.

subect; You are able to add up to 3 different degrees

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 144

Not sure where Dr Faustus found this, but it seems to be someone’s official documentation:

If you go to position 5.26 on this YouTube compilation from It’ll Be Alright [sic] on the Night, you can see Paul Hogan being similarly challenged by the word…

larger for lager

Double-take, # 82

This comes via Dr Faustus, and seems to be from a standard medical practice new-patient form. The bonus mangles suggest that the template might have been typed after lunch… Hic!

How Often; when your are drinking