Multimangle, # 51

Another mangle variety-pack from Dr Faustus:

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

80 %; 30 %; comaprison; continuosly

Not Washed or Cooked, # 306

From Chris Gibbons comes this unfortunate slip in an illustration in a list of facts about the London Underground. (The complete infographic [sic] puzzled Chris further in stating that ‘Alcohol was banned on the Tube — and all London Transport — from June 2008’, which rather implies that users of public transport must buy from outlets close to home or not at all.)

Link: Hull Trains, ‘London Underground Facts: Infographic’

pealty for penalty

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 112

Comparison between the third item below and later entries suggests that apostrophes apply only to children:

Link: Brussels Airlines, ‘Hand Luggage — General Rules’

1 ladies handbag

Not Washed or Cooked, # 291

Today’s mangling of ‘appropriate’ (juxtaposed with a scarcity of hyphens) is taken from a blog run by the National Fire Protection Association, which is based in the USA, but describes itself as ‘a global, nonprofit organization’, thus neatly contradicting its name:

Link: NFPA Safety Source blog, 21 November 2014, ‘Ideas on how your kids can help in the kitchen […]’

aprropriate; [no matter their age]

You Cannot Be Serious, # 53

Pairing nicely with yesterday’s bit of grammatical hideousness is this mangled on-set television guide entry contributed by John Holloway:

I’m not sure where the various schedulers obtain the programme information, but presumably the synopsis is supplied by the programme-makers. Coast is a collaboration between the Open University and BBC Productions, Birmingham.

sunk for sank

Not Washed or Cooked, # 241

Most well-known place names can be found in the spelling dictionaries of standard word processors when set to the appropriate location, and spell-checkers are also available for databases, so there is no excuse for this mangle which turned up in a set of directions on the AA’s online route-finder. It was spelt correctly (‘Nuneaton’ if you’re unfamiliar with the name) in the rest of the directions:

Link: AA Route Planner (journey from Wibtoft, Lutterworth to CV10 7DJ, Nuneaton)

Nuenaton