Apostrophe catastrophe, # 91

While we’re on the subject (see yesterday’s post), this mangle appears in one of a series of large (this one is double page) advertisements currently being run by Sainsbury’s:

Source: The Sunday Times (6 September, 2015), The Dish section, pp. 2—3

Mac ‘n’ Cheese

Not Washed or Cooked, # 250

An odd spelling error, supported by an incorrect quotation mark, from the online money-problem pages of The Guardian:

Link: The Guardian, ‘HSBC has closed my UK and expat bank accounts but refuses to say why’

bizzarely; ” for “

Double-take, # 48

Another (slightly edited to protect the guilty) snippet from the inbox of Dr Faustus:

entry person person

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 33

Something went wrong in some sections of The Guardian's report earlier this week on the problems of obese NHS patients:

The confused use of quotation marks doesn't help to clarify what is already a rather confused quotation. More issues arise later:

  Link: The Guardian, 'NHS … obese patients'

A little editing and proofreading might have been useful.