Double-take, # 36

The missing word round:

Link: Wiktionary.org, ‘ostensoir’

Not Washed or Cooked, # 99

Link: ebay.co.uk, ‘TRODAT DATE STAMP […]’

I hope not! The word is correct everywhere else on the page, but I can’t decide whether that makes this mangle better or worse…

Mangling Meaning, # 24

There Is Something Very Wrong With This Statement:

Link: QuickMeme, ‘There Is Something Very Wrong With Women Magazines...’

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 27

Covering all bases and hedging all bets, apostrophe-wise:

Link: St Marie’s Catholic Church, Rugby

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 107

Dr Faustus sent this in:

Link: BBC Four, Only Connect, ‘Pilots v Globetrotters’ (Series 8, Episode 5)

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 106

Carelessness or overexcitement?

Link: World Penis Average Size Studies Database

Not Washed or Cooked, # 98

Jeremy Paxman was scathing on a recent Celebrity University Challenge when no-one knew the name of the feast that commemorates the three wise men visiting Jesus. I wonder what he would make of this little lot, none of which has seen a spellchecker, and all from sources that should know better:

J. C. Cooper, Dictionary of Christianity (Abington and New York: Routledge, 2013), p. 128. Link: Google Books

Link: Matt Jenson, ‘Ephiphany and the Bible’, The Scriptorium — a blog by the Faculty of the Torrey Honors Institute

Link: St. Dunstan of Canterbury Anglican Church, Scarborough, Ontario

Mangling Meaning, # 24

I haven’t been able to track down the source of this one, but it’s another grammatical fail:

Problem punctuation, # 9

Random inclusion and omission of commas from the blurb on the Wheelock’s Latin website:

Link: The Official Wheelock’s Latin Series Website

It’s not apparent whether this error has been taken from the blurb on the book, but comparison with the similar text (but dissimilar punctuation) on the Google Books information page suggests not.

You Cannot Be Serious, # 23

A range of lexical, grammatical and syntactical errors here. Not bad for a cat though!

Link: Holistic Pet Journal, ‘Cat Purrs Healing Power’

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 29

Quite difficult to decide which category these belong in. Submitted by John Holloway, they are not quite mangling English as such, but certainly mangling in English!

Link: BBC iPlayer, 15 Minute Drama, ‘The Tale of Mr Toad’

(No link supplied)

Not Washed or Cooked, # 97

These are both captions. The first stands alone:

Source: The Times, 24 December 2013, p. 3

The mangle of the second caption is evident in juxtaposition with the photograph it is illustratrating:

Source: The Telegraph, 24 December 2013, p. 10