Not Washed or Cooked, # 78

A failure to spellcheck or proofread, augumented by pronoun-induced ambiguity:

Link: The Times (subscription access only), ‘Forced marriage to be a crime’

Multimangle, # 3

The first paragraph needed spellchecking and/or proofreading, and there are several confusing shifts between singular and plural forms in the last two paragraphs:

Link: The Times (subscription only), ‘Retired police dogs to get ‘“state pensions”’

Not Washed or Cooked, # 77

Des Pond of Slough grabbed this screenshot just in time; the mangle was swiftly corrected:

Link: BBC News, ‘In Pictures Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ (image 5)

collosal spider

Not Washed or Cooked, # 76

Yet another variant in the ‘i before e’ category:

Link: The Rugby Observer, 20 June, 2013, p. 7

Not Washed or Cooked, # 75

Another Grauniad special:

Link: The Guardian,’Sex-selective abortion allegations unprovable, says top prosecutor’

Double-take, # 27

There seems to be something important missing from this subheading:

Link (subscription access only): The Times, Troubleshooter (24 July, 2010), ‘Tax on draughty’

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 25

I’ve noticed that Dr Faustus has a soft spot for apostrophe catastrophes. He sent this one in last month, commenting on both the error and the inconsistency of presentation:

Link: Warwick District Council, ‘Whats On’

Not Washed or Cooked, # 74

Offering a pleasing segue from yesterday’s focal word, this page spells accommodation correctly (in the main text, if not, in fact, in its URL), but displays problems elsewhere, such as the penultimate sentence here:

Link: Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi, Campus Accommodation

The page’s closing sentence needed spell-checking too:

I shan’t engage with the various grammatical issues, because they aren’t mangles in the same sense as they would be for a writer whose first language was English. However, this is not to say that it’s acceptable for a professional website to contain errors, and not using a spell-checker is inexcusable. 

Not Washed or Cooked, # 73

There are many further variations on today’s mangle (I haven’t included verb forms, for one matter), but here’s a representative sample.

This is a rather unfortunate juxtaposition on the website of ACODE (the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-Learning):

Link: ACODE, ‘Acomodation ACODE 62’*

The University of Birmingham’s website has a page offering information about an EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation) conference:

Link: University of Birmingham, EMBO Conference 2014, ‘The Mighty Daphnia: Past Present and Future’‡

Here’s the BBC, offering helpful information for those attending its 2013 Winter Good Food Show:

Link: BBC Good Food Show Winter, ‘Acommodation’

It’s not just the consonants that cause confusion:

Link: Reed.co.uk, ‘Chef De Partie Luxury Hotel with accommadation’

Link (secure page): Facebook | iQStudents; cf. Google Search ‘iQ Sheffield Student Accommadation’

You’d think an estate agent would have a better grip on the word:

Link: Zoopla via The Telegraph, ‘2 bedroom terraced house for sale’

Finally, a contribution from The Grauniad:

Link: The Guardian | Travel | Brussels

* There’s a different misspelling on the conference’s ‘Getting to Suva’ page.
‡ The title lacks any punctuation on the homepage of the conference and contains only one capital letter.

Not Washed or Cooked, # 74

One of those words you particularly don’t want to mangle:

Link: Amazon.co.uk, entry for Peter Jones, Homer’s ‘Odyssey’: A Companion to the English Translation of Richmond Lattimore. Classics Companions (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1991)

Not Washed or Cooked, # 72

Dr Faustus has been emailed a special offer with a bonus mangle. It’s a brand-new way to deal with that old i before e problem:

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 90

Today features an extremely common mangle. The examples are all taken from professional sources.

The first can be found on the website of a self-improvement community, which also seems challenged by a lack of hyphens:

Link: SelfGrowth.com, ‘Mange Your Time More Effectively […]’

The next one comes from the English-language website of a high school in Manila, and provides an image of the the correctly-spelt book cover. The screenshot includes, in the column on the right, a bonus it’s-not-phrased-as-a-question-but-we’ll-give-it-a-question-mark-and-that’ll-sort-it heading:

Link: Ateneo High School Educational Media Center, OPAC, Ronald R. Fry, Mange Your Time [sic]

This one, which also comes with a second mangle, is extracted from a page of details about ‘Priority Management programs’ offered by a bilingual training company based in Montreal:

Link: Z Solutions Consulting, ‘Plan’

There are variations on the theme. This is from the digital TransWorld Business Magazine:

Link: TransWorld Business Magazine, ‘10 Effective Time Mangement Skills’

 You can mange things other than time, of course. People, for instance:

Link: HotCourses, ‘People Mangement — New to Management’ at Newbury College

You can mange an office, or help mange one:

Link: Reed.co.uk, ‘Office Manger’ vacancy

Link: LinkedIn, ‘Assistant Office Manger’ vacancy

You can specialize:

Link: RigZone, ‘Topsides Logistics Mangement Lead’ vacancy

Or you can break into marketing, starting as an assistant —

Link: Marketing Week, online jobs, ‘Assistant Brand Manger’ vacancy

— and working up to become the subject of an article in a trade publication: 

Link: Checkout, ‘Rogers Appointed Brand Manger […]’

You can be trained for a career:

Link: UCAS Progress website, ‘Level 3 Extended Diploma in Horse Mangement’ course

However, since the term mange exists (it is a skin disease afflicting animals, such as horses and dogs), if your work is connected with animals it’s wise to take particular care with words, perhaps checking a dictionary as well as a spell-checker, and looking at any further information that might help, such as the spelling on a logo: 

Link: China Working Dog Mangement Association website

Link: China Working Dog Mangement Association website, English pages