Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 30

It's Pancake Day tomorrow, so today kicks off a short seasonal run. Some of you might want to go on this day out:

Link: FamilyFriendlyFun.co.uk, 'Shove Tuesday'

Perhaps not, though: it doesn't really sound very friendly at all.

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 29

From an article on global food waste:

Link: Geoffrey Lean, The Telegraph, 'Young Briton…'

Pets? Really?

Double-take, # 2

Quite an amusing juxtaposition:

Link: Coventry Telegraph, 'Drug dealing … bushes'

Mangling Meaning, # 1

Headlines seem to have become more idiotic than ever. These are variations on a theme that featured across much of the UK media yesterday:

Link: Independent, '100 per cent'

 Link: Birmingham Post, '100 per cent'

Link: SkyNews, '100 per cent'

Link: Daily Mail, '100 per cent'

(Android edition)

Most of the offenders made matters plain (100% of the meat content) in the subheadings, but some simply compounded the idiocy:

 Link: Daily Telegraph, '100 per cent'

4News abandoned the percentages altogether:

 

 Link: 4News, '100 percent'

Since the product in question was supposed to be lasagne, you'd have thought someone would have noticed the lack of pasta, cheese and tomatoes a lot sooner.

You Cannot Be Serious, # 8

Today, John Holloway's third offering (for now…); this puzzler was spotted in Waitrose, Canary Wharf:

Double-take, # 1

Have it while it's red-hot off the press (or whatever the online equivalent is):

Link: Guardian, 'doctorate for plagiarism'

Not Washed or Cooked, # 8

It's difficult to decide which thread today's mangles best fit — all of them, perhaps…

The second of three guest contributions by John Holloway begins with a rather unexpected instruction (perhaps even two) from the Metropolian Police:

It doesn't get any better when you read on:

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 3

Today's twin mangles were contributed by John Holloway.

John says that Tesco in Lee Mill, Devon, put up these signs after complaints about the previous signage, which indicated the location of 'CONFECTIONARY'.

Problem punctuation, # 1

I think I’ve found one of the commas omitted from the 4News report discussed yesterday:

Link: LA fitness

Or maybe LA fitness [sic] intended, but forgot, to insert ‘like’, indicating the company’s hipness, and it’s supposed to say: ‘Get ready to, like, join the resolution’. With proofreading like that, it’s hard to be sure if the pun is intended…

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 28

Bob Godiva sent me a link to a recent report on the so-called 'bedroom tax', which suggests that the occupancy required is even higher than previously reported:

  Link: 4News, 'Bed tax'

Are they rationing commas at 4News?

It turned out, however, that I hadn't read far enough down the page… It was this that Bob's eagle eye had spotted:

Link: 4News, 'Bed tax'

Bob Godiva wants to know: Who is Hugh demand?

 

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 27

Some biblical studies today, extracts from a document called 'Doctrine of Temptation'. First the Old Testament:

  

Now the New Testament:

Perhaps this is the kind of temptation in question:

 Link: 'desert temptation'

It certainly looks very tempting, but you're safe: the recipe hasn't been included.

Not Washed or Cooked, # 7

No spellcheckers or proofreaders in Oxford University's Department of Experimental Psychology?

Link: UOxford, Experimental Psychology

It's not the only one, and this one seems more reprehensible: 

 Link: UOxford, Continuing Education

Perhaps the 'artifical intelligence' will help with this kind of thing when it's been created. It'll probably have a spellchecker built in.