Handritten, # 7

Just Nick says he spotted this somewhere in Nuneaton, adding: ‘Not sure of the specific place — we had to take it at traffic lights!’

parkinig, onley

Multimangle, # 48

Des Pond of Slough has now taken several online courses, of which the latest, delivered by Future Learn, is ‘From World War to White Heat: the RAF in the Cold War’, a collaboration by Royal Air Force [RAF] Museums and the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, under the guidance of Dr Ross Mahoney, Aviation Historian, RAF Museum, and Dr Emmett Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in History, Royal Holloway.

Des is usually full of praise for these courses, but this one has been dogged by badly-finished written materials. Submitting this example, Des remarks: ‘This is after typos had been pointed out by several people, so this is the corrected version.’

deminished; in for of, & boarders for borders

Not Washed or Cooked, # 296

Des Pond of Slough submitted this entry from the ‘Featured Video’ list of yesterday’s Telegraph homepage, commenting, ‘Not with a bhang?’

wimper

Multimangle, # 43

In amongst this bunch of mangles is one appropriate for St David’s Day:

Link: Chadwicks flowers, ‘English indoor dafodills’

dafodills; Chadwicks; Valentines Day; Mothers Day; foliages

Not Washed or Cooked, # 288

Dr Faustus recently contributed a mangle from the application form for the graduate trainee scheme of The Financial Times. He seems to have persevered with the application, and the FT form with its mangles:

our for your; acamdeic; recieved; employmnet

Not Washed or Cooked, # 283

The Old Hand & Diamond Inn’s menu, featured yesterday, does not confine its mangles to Scottish food and drink:

Link: The Old Hand & Diamond Inn, Coedway

rasberry, rosemay for rosemary (twice), course for coarse; stilton for Stilton

Multimangle, # 37

Saluting the Scots poet for a second day with some more unfortunate spellings, although this time the apostrophe mangles are avoided as Burns is not mentioned :

Link: The Old Hand & Diamond Inn, Coedway

hagis, whiskey

Multimangle, # 36

In a short seasonal interlude, today’s and tomorrow’s mangles relate to the annual commemoration of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, a commemoration irregularly marked with an apostrophe. Here is an announcement for last year’s festivities from the Morgan Arms in London:

Link: Metropolitan Pub Company, Morgan Arms, Burns’ Night 2015

kneeps for neeps, e for and, & whisky’s as plural [plus Burns Night]

Not Washed or Cooked, # 282

Dr Faustus sends this glaring mangle:

Link: Bitesize Irish Gaelic, ‘How David White Got Into Irish Gealic (Ep. 56)’

Gealic for Gaelic

Other Englishes, # 3

These rather mangled instructions, submitted by Dr Faustus, come with Apachie brand bluetooth sports headphones:

alternativley; audiable; either devices

Not Washed or Cooked, # 278

Des Pond of Slough was surprised this mangle made it to publication, especially given the size of the lettering and the sparseness of the copy:

Link: Rugby Observer, 10 December, 2015, p. 32

hundereds

Not Washed or Cooked, # 273

Spotted at the Wibbas Down Arms in Wimbledon by Dr Faustus:

sirlion

Not Washed or Cooked, # 272

Ryan McCarthy found this mangle on Amazon:

Link: Amazon UK

clork for clock

Double-take, # 195

Another find by Des Pond of Slough. Hypercorrection, perhaps:

Link: Rugby Observer (22 October, 2015), p. 7

squalour

Not Washed or Cooked, # 258

Another from Dr Faustus. With these prices the centre will soon be able to afford a spell-checker!

tarriff

You Cannot Be Serious, # 58

Not the best word to misspell, nor the best place to misspell it:

proffessional [+ punctuation]

Double-take, # 187

An unfortunate homophonous mangle, submitted by Dr Faustus. The error has been corrected on the BBC’s webpage, but Google shows that echoes still remain:

duel for dual

Not Washed or Cooked, # 252

It is difficult to see how this error happened in the first place, given that the mangled vowel and the correct one are not close to each other on a standard QWERTY keyboard. The word can be found, correctly spelt, in at least two other places in the text:

Source: Diana Holmes, French Women’s Writing, 1848–1994. Women in Context (London & Atlantic Highlands: Athlone, 1996), p. 111, and online: Google Books

propoganda

Double-take, # 178

John Holloway seems to have been doing an online quiz. It’s hard to tell whether the included mangle is a misspelling or a typographical error:

Link: Quizopolis, ‘The Archers Brian Aldridge Trivia’

Hungry for Hungary

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 88

Another homophonic mix-up from Dr Faustus:

Link: BBC News, ‘South Africa train crash […]’

The BBC’s error, as so often, has been widely disseminated on the Internet.
stationery for stationary