Apostrophe catastrophe, # 13

nPower’s second appearance within weeks (the first was also connected with reading meters) contains something that shouldn’t have made it to the published page, and didn’t go through a spell-checker:

Source: nPower personalized customer webpage

Perhaps not surprising considering the odd capitalization of the company’s name…

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 76

The read at the top here seems to have slipped though nPower’s proofreading net:

No link: page accessible only via login

However, similar usage on other pages shows that it isn’t a typographical error at all:

Link: nPower, ‘Providing a meter reading’

While read exists as a noun, it is not a synonym of reading when used in this context. OED even has a special section under meter relating to reading meters, in which the term read does not feature as a viable alternative:

‘meter-reading n. the reading of a meter or meters; an instance of this; (also) a reading displayed on or recorded by a meter.’