Showing posts with label surveys & questionnaires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surveys & questionnaires. Show all posts

Monday, 21 March 2016

Multimangle, # 45

From the inbox of Dr Faustus. It started off quite well, but then went very wrong…

What is your name and contact number? Where do you buy your clothes, please list 5 online and high street stops in orderr of preference?

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 206

John Holloway finds a homophonous mangle in a manufacturer’s survey. Some quotation marks seem to have escaped too:

here for hear; quotation marks missing

Saturday, 3 October 2015

Multimangle, # 27

A nasty misspelling plus a major mismatch in grammatical logic between the question and answer categories:

Source: Eurostar UK journey satisfaction survey
knowledgable + grammatical mismatch between option subjects & answer categories

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Not Washed or Cooked, # 170

Dr Faustus found this typographical error in a survey:


The final sentence doesn’t read well either, with its cumbersome ‘You are able’ and its superfluous ‘different’.
subect; You are able to add up to 3 different degrees