Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 198

From the backlog of Dr Faustus, who spotted this at the Tudor House in Southampton:

us for is

You Cannot Be Serious, # 57

This political poster is currently doing the rounds on social media. In addition to the typographical mangle and the odd temporal description, the group’s identifying acronym and logo are omitted:

 

airstikes; ‘just several days’ [+ missing identifying logo/acronym]

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 97

On sale, and spotted by Des Pond of Slough, in the shop at the Heritage Motor Centre Motor Museum in Gaydon:

First Mini’s at Longbridge

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 96

The charity formerly known as Citizens’ Advice Bureau has apparently been rebranded and eschews possessive apostrophes in its name, which rather implies uncertainly about the number of citizens it is willing to aid:

Link: Citizens Advice

Elsewhere (Rugby, in this case), nonsensical pre-rebrand signage sidesteps the apostrophe problem entirely:

Citizen Advice Bureau

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 197

The first in an otherwise largely unproblematic list of activities (the other mangle was ‘patch work’ for ‘patchwork’) at a Warwickshire fete:

princes and princes competition

Double-take, # 186

Spotted in July 2012 in a charity shop:

No food or drink to be consumed in this store. (Including children)

You Cannot Be Serious, # 56

This advertisement from the Rugby Observer, 24 June 2014, shows some interesting career options:

Apprenticeships [… Business Administration Customer Service […] Sports Coaching Warehousing & Nail Services

Double-take, # 185

Des Pond of Slough finds this Sainsbury’s sign quite amusing:

Our fresh chicken […] has been for 10 years

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 95

From the backlog of Dr Faustus, a notice in the London-Bayswater branch of L. A. Fitness:

other members safety

Multimangle, # 27

A nasty misspelling plus a major mismatch in grammatical logic between the question and answer categories:

Source: Eurostar UK journey satisfaction survey

knowledgable + grammatical mismatch between option subjects & answer categories

Double-take, # 184

Via Dr Faustus, a section from one of those irritating and increasingly widespread ‘news reports’ that are largely based on reproducing, usually graphically, Twitter posts. The mangle, which arrives at the end, may well be an expression of the reporter’s boredom. I’m amazed Dr Faustus lasted so long through the piece!

Link: ITV News, ‘Spectator magazine under fire for article on Liz Kendall’s and Yvette Cooper’s looks’

Asked by Channel 4 News journalist Fraser Nelson […], editor Fraser Nelson said

Not Washed or Cooked, # 255

The mangled place-name has featured before; the adverb is making its debut. It seems more likely that the subheading was composed by a sub-editor than the comment-article writer; in either case it’s substandard:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘This is why “Pension Isas” would be a disaster’

seriosuly; Britian