You Cannot Be Serious, # 62

Des Pond of Slough has submitted this recent breadcrumb from The Telegraph’s homepage, asking: ‘If you lose a loss, isn’t that a gain?’

lost 22pc loss

Double-take, # 220

It must be the price of all that technology that has resulted in these Telegraph ‘kids’ improbably having to share a room… Not to worry: they aren’t actually sharing. The writer of the breadcrumb has saved space by deleting the final s of the headline:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Here’s How Much All the Tech in Your Kids’ Bedrooms Has Cost You’

kids’ bedroom for kids’ bedrooms

Double-take, # 194

A fishy mangle, with dreadful pun, via Des Pond of Slough:

Source: The Telegraph, breadcrumb to ‘Twitter had the best response to a lorry shedding a load of fish in Scotland’

Until I investigated this mangle, I had no idea that there was a verb shed that meant — very precisely — ‘Park (a vehicle) in a depot’, the definition given by Oxford Dictionaries. The simple past tense and the past participle of this verb are shedded. The OED* offers two definitions: the obscure (it says) ‘To roof over’, and a broader equivalent of the Oxford Dictionaries’ entry, ‘To place in a shed’.

The other verb shed, which is the one intended by The Telegraph’s breadcrumb, is irregular, and both the simple past and past participle forms are shed.

shedded for shed

* Subscription access only.

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 195

Fairly hot on the heels of a contribution by Dr Faustus, demonstrating a failure to proofread a report of a tragedy before uploading, comes a BBC News breadcrumb, via Des Pond of Slough, featuring the same basic typographical error:

The phrase is correct in the main report, but this may, of course, have been altered.

casual for causal

You Cannot Be Serious, # 48

An oddly-phrased report link which a small amount of reordering could improve:

Breadcrumb link to The Telegraph, ‘Striking ferry workers mutiny on ship and loot bar over job losses’

Striking […] workers mutiny by […] spraying graffiti over job losses

Double-take, # 144

Des Pond of Slough spotted this amusing mangle in a BBC News breadcrumb:

Link: BBC News, ‘Apple boss Tim Cook “to donate millions” to charity’

$800 fortune

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 69

Mangled breadcrumbs and links again; this time a persistent problem with a placename, spotted by Des Pond of Slough:

The mountain’s name was consistently spelt correctly on the linked page, though it‘s unclear if the mangle in the links (perhaps a hypercorrection) was made by human or automatic agency:

Link: BBC News, ‘El Capitan — the world's toughest climb? in 90 seconds’

El Captain for El Capitan [a couple of times]

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 68

Another mangled breadcrumb:

The headline actually reads:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Up to 5,000 Europeans pose terror threat after going abroad to fight jihad’

which makes more sense.
post for pose

Not Washed or Cooked, # 196

Two versions of a mangled breadcrumb that appeared on the Guardian’s webpages last week:

attle for battle

Not Washed or Cooked, # 195

This breadcrumb was doing the rounds on Facebook last autumn:

Source: breadcrumb link to Latin Times, ‘Is Drinking Wine Better Than Going To The Gym? […]’

cmplex

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 160

Beginning the year as we mean to go on with this mangle, spotted by Des Pond of Slough, who comments: ‘I wonder just how thrilled she is…’

Source: BBC homepage (http://www.bbc.co.uk/), 31 December, 2014

The caption in the box above also seems to be missing some vital punctuation…
Dam Joan Collins

Not Washed or Cooked, # 142

A mangled breadcrumb…

Link: The Telegraph, breadcrumb on ‘Word of mouth: Bee’s Bakery […], cookies and cakes with a difference’

fraudtsers