The Wrong Word Entirely, # 86

Another from Suzanne Sirett. It isn’t clear from the report whether the text was supplied as a written or spoken quotation, so there’s a choice over where the mangle originates:

Link: ABC News, ‘Andrew Laming's senior media adviser, Fiona Edwards, defects to Labor’

indiscrete for indiscreet

Double-take, # 171

This seems an unlikely term to apply to quantities of liquid, and indeed rather evokes soggy bread:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Cookbook of the week: Luke’s Cookbook by Luke Thomas’ — Pea and Goat’s Cheese Risotto

Add the hot stock in three batches

Not Washed or Cooked, # 244

A Russell Group university offering a mangled service to its graduands/graduates and their guests during graduation week:

shutlebus

Multimangle, # 22

Two clippings from one page of a small commercial website, spotted by Snazz. The first offers two versions of a word, misspelt both times, and the second contains several minor mangles and a sen­tence that displays more passion than intelligibility:

Link: Atelier Garden Studios, ‘Vista Garden Studios’

 

panneling; pannelling; Whats more, our time honoured precision engineering skills, respect & nurture -these materials, resulting in a garden studio which blends with nature to become indoors and outdoor in one space.-

Not Washed or Cooked, # 243

Other available languages include English:

Link: Languatics, French

couses for courses

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 85

Suzanne Sirett found this mangle on the Facebook page of ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Cor­por­a­tion. The corresponding webpage has been corrected, but the second graphic below (a screenshot of the top result from an Internet search) shows that the error was originally there. It is difficult to tell whether the mangle is a typographical error or an eggcorn:

Link: Facebook, ABC News, post of 14 July, 2015, at 11.44

Source: Google search on "Protestor Helen Bayes told the ABC they were baring", 14 July, 13:02

baring witness

Double-take, # 170

Dr Faustus has found a big white space and a forgotten placeholder on a global publishers’ graduate recruitment page. Recruitment is now closed, but if the page is to remain in place for reference, it would look better with the gap filled or removed:

Link: HarperCollins Publishers, Graduate Recruitment 2015-2016

Long Tail Video goes here

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 190

This typological mangle has featured before, also in an academic publishing source. This example is both quite large and thus obvious, and pleasingly juxtaposed with the even larger correct version:

Link: JSTOR, The French Review, preview page of Valerie Raoul, ‘The Diary Novel: Model and Meaning in La Nausée’

dairy for diary

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 84

It’s hard to tell whether this error is the journalist’s or the bank’s, although surely the former should have corrected it anyway. Since t and p are not adjacent on the keyboard, it’s probably not a typographical error, and is more likely to be a mondegreen or eggcorn since, when sounded with a glottal stop, the wrong word can barely, if at all, be distinguished from the correct word. Similar errors in published writing and in students’ written work suggest that this is becoming an increasingly common problem.

Link: The Sunday Times (subscription access only), ‘Scandal of the missing cash from dormant RBS account’

upmost for utmost

Not Washed or Cooked, # 242

A barely subliminal secondary message may be embedded here — or perhaps it’s just a mangle:

destory for destroy

You Cannot Be Serious, # 48

An oddly-phrased report link which a small amount of reordering could improve:

Breadcrumb link to The Telegraph, ‘Striking ferry workers mutiny on ship and loot bar over job losses’

Striking […] workers mutiny by […] spraying graffiti over job losses

Problem punctuation, # 12

Gary Hazell is uncertain whether or not this is a good price:

Link: Facebook page for Westmead Garage, Swindon

£150,00