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?
Businesses that don't bother checking their websites, journalists who write gibberish and balderdash, professionals who can't take the extra time and effort to spell-check and proofread, newspapers that turn tragedy into farce through solecisms, plus the odd guide to solving common grammatical difficulties… Contributions and suggestions welcome. (… Also corrections if required, obviously!) Send to: manglingenglishATgmxDOTcom, stating your nom de mangle (if desired).
Showing posts with label surveys & questionnaires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surveys & questionnaires. Show all posts
Monday, 21 March 2016
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
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
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