Not Washed or Cooked, # 211

An excellent find by Dr Faustus, especially as the online version has been corrected:

Source: The Telegraph for smart devices, ‘How the European dream is dying, state by state’

Euroscpetiticism

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 74

Not the first time this mangle has featured on the blog, but the first time it has come from an educational source. Well spotted, Dr Faustus!

Source: Brighton Journalist Works, ‘Fast-track NCTJ Diploma in Journalism’ prospectus, p. 9

Link: online pdf

affect for effect

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 169

From the inbox of Dr Faustus, who comments: ‘I’m pretty sure Imelda Staunton would be horrified to see her name mangled thus!’ Indeed, it is a major mangle to inflict on a famous actress. Perhaps her next Ethel Merman revival role should be Call Me Madam…

To be fair, LondonTheatreDirect.com have managed to spell the name correctly online.
Stanton for Staunton

Not Washed or Cooked, # 210

Dr Faustus has been sending his backlog in. This is from a webpage on the English language:

Link: Vox, ‘25 Maps that Explain the English Language’, ‘6: The Great Vowel Shift’

prounounced

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 76

Another from Sky’s new television guide team. It won’t be the last!

Time Lords […] adventure

Double-take, # 138

Not necessarily a mangle, but surely either erroneous or pointless?

Link: Amazon.co.uk, ‘Doctor Who Remote Controlled Inflatable Dalek’

Maybe the reduction was worthwhile, though: it’s sold out.
RRP: £34.99 Price: £34.95 You Save: £0.04

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 168

A small omission:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Student loans are tough to clear — even when you've got the cash’

missing of [full cost student loans]

Not Washed or Cooked, # 209

Another mangled headline from The Independent:

Link: The Independent, ‘World’s largest plane graveyard […]’

As so often happens, this mangle quickly ran round the digital world:

Link: Google, search for "amaznig interactive map"

amaznig

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 73

John Holloway comments: ‘The beer and wine at the Bolingbroke (Swindon) are so polite!’

The substitute of compliment for complement is not the only confusion. The final remark should either be connected to the previous one (precisely as in the earlier coda, ‘all freshly prepared’) or supplied with an active verb (‘is’?) so it can stand as a complete sentence. Punctuation is a problem: the comma after ‘includes’ is superfluous, and would be better placed after ‘sauce’ since, as it stands, the last offering in the list seems to be an unusual surf-and-turf dish. 

complimented for complemented

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 167

No proofreading = no sense:

Link: The Independent, ‘Muslim women’s rights campaigner […]’

co-exited for co-existed

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 166

Mo Juste on mangled Sundays in Northampton:

preformed for performed

Double-take, # 74

This Guardian writer is horrified by implicit gender stereotyping in some primary school homework. It’s a fair concern; but the hideous confusion of pronouns seems a greater problem than the font face. Surely politically-correct grammar only has any claim to validity if it’s consistent?

Link: The Guardian, ‘Young children must be protected from ingrained gender stereotypes’

he … they; they … wife