Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 221

The last of the competency-test mangles submitted by Dr Faustus contains more spelling errors, more random capitalization and an ill-checked interrogative formulation:

Source: Numerical Reasoning Test

passanger, carrage, which how much more; capitalization

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 220

More competency test mangles from Dr Faustus. Today’s example seems to be mainly about random capitalization, although ‘£1000-worth’ might better express the purchases, or reordering resulting in ‘at £1000’:

Source: Numerical Reasoning Test

Rice; august; Maize; £1000 of Rice/Maize

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

Double-take, # 150

Dr Faustus has found another of those annoying online quizzes. This one professes to test grammar via multiple choice answers, but sometimes there are no right answers to select:

Link: What-Character-Are-You.com, ‘How good is your grammar?’

[multiple choice with no right answer

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 75

This is the Facebook notification of the results of an internet questionnaire, which may well have more mangles in it and can be found here:

lam of innocence

Not Washed or Cooked, # 205

An Internet quiz link, lifted from Facebook:

populare for popular