Apostrophe catastrophe, # 113

A painful moment at the British Museum:

Source: The British Museum, wall decoration, ‘Francis Towne’s Watercolours of Rome’ exhibition

it’s for its

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 102

This mangle can be found on one of the banners adorning the Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome, promoting the ‘Once Were Romans’ exhibition. New-found Mangler, who spotted it, points out that, in Italian pronunciation, the correct English translation and this erroneous word would be almost homophonous:

leaps for lips

Double-take, # 172

A Dr Faustus find, now corrected:

Link: The British Museum, ‘Indigenous Australia’ exhibition

is be

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 165

A mangle found on the National Portrait Gallery website proves, on further investigation, to be heinously widespread:

Link: National Portrait Gallery, ‘Hon. Julian Henry Francis Grenfell’

A Google search for ‘solider-poet’ returned 1,510 results, as well as asking ‘Do you mean: “soldier-poet”’ (without a question mark). These examples from the results come from academic books:

Link: Google, search "solider-poet"

solider for soldier

Singular or Plural? # 12

Grammatical-numerical confusion:

Link: The British Postal Museum & Archive, ‘ The Post Office and the First World War’

a half pence

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 35

Des Pond of Slough found a motor museum at the weekend. This is part of an exhibitor’s notice:

It’s not easy to work out how this verbal substitution occurred.
depute for debut

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 116

This starts with a failure to spellcheck and becomes worse as it goes along, culminating, as Des Pond of Slough observes, in a blissful mangle in the final sentence:

Link: Abbey Pumping Station Museum, Leicester

sicence; graffited; see-through bowel and cistern

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 105

This error featured earlier in the month in some mangled carols and poems, and now has a second outing in a couple of other contexts.

The provanence of the first example is unclear, since the text reproduced below is taken from the website of the UCL Art Museum, which quotes the artist Stanley Spencer, but cites the Tate Gallery Archive as the source of the quotation:

Link: UCL Art Museum, ‘The Nativity’

The second example comes from the description of a nativity scene, available from the website of Creations by Todd (‘Home of Fine Custom-Created and Specialized Furniture and Accents to Match Your Lifestyle’): 

Link: Creations by Todd, ‘Three Dimensional Nativity Set’