Double-take, # 110

It’s not until the end of this text, when potential female customers are presented as an afterthought, that the reader realizes that the product is intended only for men. From the mangling perspective, the problem is the ambiguity arising from the failure to insert a word after the final possessive noun:

Source: Sunday Times Magazine, 26 October 2014, p. 24

Women’s what? Shops? Sizes? Dreams? Not well conceived. At least there’s an apostrophe, which can’t be said for the company website’s use of the same word and its male equivalent:

Link: Berghaus

available in women’s. mens womens

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 147

Presently doing the rounds online are various stylized versions of this text, extracted from a speech made by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and sampled (per The Guardian) on Beyoncé’s ***Flawless. Unfortunately, whoever designed this version (found on Facebook; original source unknown) didn’t proofread it, and it is not flawless…

why do we teach to aspire to marriage

Double-take, # 41

Quite a lot of possibilities for today’s missing word round:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘“Amnesty” for 100,000 middle class professionals refusing self-assessment’

professionals who have been by controversial changes

Double-take, # 36

The missing word round:

Link: Wiktionary.org, ‘ostensoir’

Double-take, # 28

It helps to know what the writer is talking about to make sense of this, but even without background knowledge the missing word is clearly an issue:

Muh Arif Rokhman, ‘Rereading Barthes’ Reading Method: Comparing French and Indonesian/British Cases’, Humaniora, 18 (2006), 246-53 (p. 247)

It’s not, as it actually says, a reference to a picture saluting a flag, or even, just as surrealistically, to a flag saluting a picture (a picture-saluting French flag?), but refers to Roland Barthes’s discussion of the signification of a photograph of a black soldier on the cover (below) of the magazine Paris Match.

See ‘Le Mythe aujourd’hui’, in Mythologies. Paris: Seuil, 1957, pp. 179–233; trans. by Annette Lavers, ‘Myth Today’, in Mythologies. Rev. edn. London: Vintage, 2009, pp. 131–87.  Link: Wikipedia, ‘Paris Match - child soldier cover.jpg’

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 70

Definitely something missing here:

Link: Which? Buildings insurance information