Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 181

Ryan McCarthy spotted a typographical error (now corrected) in this caption:

Link: BBC News, ‘How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10’

Minters for Miners

Not Washed or Cooked, # 234

Gary Hazell has found a subpar heading on an employment agency webpage:

Link: Reed.co.uk, ‘Qaulity Engineer’

qaulity

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 80

This subheading compounds its confusing mangle with confusing syntax, but clarity of expression could be achieved by a simple restructuring — easily done via cut-and-paste:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘NHS wasting millions on expensive hip replacements’

basis for basics

Not Washed or Cooked, # 233

Via Arina, a typographical error that undermines confidence in the service offered:

Link: The University of Warwick | Centre for Applied Linguistics | Learning English Online at Warwick, ‘Study Skills’

Learnng

You Cannot Be Serious, # 45

Mo Juste was trying to research famous birthdays for 27 May, and he came upon this:

Link: The Famous People, Famous People Born On May 27th

Mo Juste was surprised. He hadn’t realized that what Wikipedia describes as an ‘English comedian and television personality’ was in fact an American film producer who had died in 1999, and he was sure that the English celebrity spelt his forename with only one ‘l’.

Further investigation revealed that someone had mixed up the English Alan (one-ell) Carr with the American Allan (two-ells) Carr, famous for the film Grease:

Link: Aveleyman, Allan Carr

Mo Juste clicked the link, and discovered that the erroneous photograph is credited to a Twitter account (a bit of a clue there, one would think) called ‘Chattyman’ (another clue since Alan Carr: Chatty Man is the name of Alan (one-ell) Carr’s chat show):

Link: The Famous People | Film & Theater Personalities | Allan Carr — Biography

All in all, an own-goal for The Famous People — Society for Recognition of Famous People.
Alan Carr’s picture in Allan Carr’s biography

Not Washed or Cooked, # 232

An overlooked typographical error features twice in this 1992 edition of a translation from 1956:

Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, trans. by Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Washington Square Press, 1992), p. 338

Sartre, Being and Nothingness, trans. by Barnes, p. 444

whch [twice]

Not Washed or Cooked, # 231

A mangle from a while ago:

Link: The Times, ‘Top Gear hosts “refused to carry on without Clarkson”’

corpration

Double-take, # 159

Ryan McCarthy has caught out The Independent in an unfortunate template error and, as it turns out, an arithmetical one too:

Source: The Independent, 26 May, 2015, p. 5

dummy text in template display box

Double-take, # 158

Not strictly a mangle, but a distinctly odd alternative to suggest:

Link: OxfordDictionaries, search for "francocentric"

Frankenstein as substitute for Francocentric

Double-take, # 157

The University of Warwick has decided that its TeachHigher initiative is not a good idea after all. Here is the opening sentence of its announcement to that effect, published yesterday:

Link: The University of Warwick – Insite, ‘Update on Teach Higher and VAM Payroll Transitional Project’

the subject of the conditions and pay for postgraduates who teach has been the subject of significant debate

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 79

When the details are revealed, this headline proves to be using the wrong adjective:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Fraudulent doctor […]’

fraudulent for fake

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 84

Des Pond of Slough went to Donington Historic Festival and came back with a mangle:

bin’s for bins