You Cannot Be Serious, # 64

The Telegraph hedging its spelling bets again:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Holiday Money: The Ultimate Guide to Buying’

bureaus; bureaux

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 101

Unjust and incorrect!

Link: The New Times [Rwanda], ‘Cashless Bus Fair System Should Be Made Optional’

fair for fare

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 100

Another nonsensical preposition:

Link: The Sunday Times, ‘Archbishop Warns of Campus Anti-Semites’

echoes with for echoes of

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 112

Comparison between the third item below and later entries suggests that apostrophes apply only to children:

Link: Brussels Airlines, ‘Hand Luggage — General Rules’

1 ladies handbag

You Cannot Be Serious, # 63

Dr Faustus thinks this may be less money than it looks:

Link: BBC News, NI’s top lawyer to join “gay cake” case’

£500 pounds

You Cannot Be Serious, # 62

Des Pond of Slough has submitted this recent breadcrumb from The Telegraph’s homepage, asking: ‘If you lose a loss, isn’t that a gain?’

lost 22pc loss

Double-take, # 222

Dr Faustus received an email from Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University, inviting him to study in China. It concludes with a paragraph containing an unwieldy prepositional clause — a frequently ill-used construction — which is further compromised by an adverb that does not very precisely communicate its meaning, although placing it after the verb might have improved matters:

purely taught in English; unwieldy prepositional clause

Not Washed or Cooked, # 303

Gary Hazell spotted this on Facebook:

Link: Facebook.com, The Swindonian

The headline is correct on the website, but its address suggests this is where the error originated:

librarires

Double-take, # 221

From MrsX comes this now-corrected (but still badly-phrased and badly-punctuated) gem:

Link: University of York PUBlic Seminar

Each talk will be 10 minutes long containing no talk or equations

Mangling Meaning, # 37

Incoherence verging on utter nonsense from The Express:

Link: The Express, ‘Outrage as Hotel Homes 300 Asylum Seekers — Without Telling Anyone’

asylum seekers have been housed in a major hotel without informing anyone; in what the authorities claim is on the sly

Double-take, # 220

It must be the price of all that technology that has resulted in these Telegraph ‘kids’ improbably having to share a room… Not to worry: they aren’t actually sharing. The writer of the breadcrumb has saved space by deleting the final s of the headline:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Here’s How Much All the Tech in Your Kids’ Bedrooms Has Cost You’

kids’ bedroom for kids’ bedrooms

Multimangle, # 48

Des Pond of Slough has now taken several online courses, of which the latest, delivered by Future Learn, is ‘From World War to White Heat: the RAF in the Cold War’, a collaboration by Royal Air Force [RAF] Museums and the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, under the guidance of Dr Ross Mahoney, Aviation Historian, RAF Museum, and Dr Emmett Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in History, Royal Holloway.

Des is usually full of praise for these courses, but this one has been dogged by badly-finished written materials. Submitting this example, Des remarks: ‘This is after typos had been pointed out by several people, so this is the corrected version.’

deminished; in for of, & boarders for borders