Double-take, # 225

Via Dr Faustus, another eye-watering paragraph from the College of Media and Publishing:

Link: College of Media and Publishing, ‘Do the NCTJ diploma the digital way’

 You cannot be able to get the NCTJ diploma, for a better price, anywhere

Problem punctuation, # 13

Syntactical confusion at Shakespeare’s Globe:

Guess what I got you for your birthday?

Double-take, # 156

Adding insult to injury, this is extracted from a letter sent by Lloyds Bank announcing a drop in the interest rate with a solecism resulting from omitting the word ‘account’:

eSavings is changing

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 78

From a smartphone BBC News report comes a missing apostrophe, and a puzzle: why use single quotation marks in the headline and doubles in the subhead? The online version has no subhead, but it too nonsensically varies its quotation marks with singles in the headline and doubles in the body of the piece…

Source: BBC News for smartphone

pounds worth + interchangeable single & double quotation marks