Mangling English: an occasional rant

Businesses that don't bother checking their websites, journalists who write gibberish and balderdash, professionals who can't take the extra time and effort to spell-check and proofread, newspapers that turn tragedy into farce through solecisms, plus the odd guide to solving common grammatical difficulties… Contributions and suggestions welcome. (… Also corrections if required, obviously!) Send to: manglingenglishATgmxDOTcom, stating your nom de mangle (if desired).

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Sunday, 12 June 2016

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 117

Spotted on Clarendon Road, Watford:

11 minutes walk

Friday, 21 August 2015

You Cannot Be Serious, # 51

This pair of adjacent Twitter posts fits nicely into an ongoing thread (here and in discussion on the blog’s Facebook page) on notional agreement, most recently featured last weekend. The contributor, Des Pond of Slough, comments: ‘At least they’re consistent. Kinda sorta.’

Link: Twitter.com, Warwickshire Police, 20 August 2015

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