Not Washed or Cooked, # 109

Today’s example comes courtesy of Craig Robert Bruce. I’ve included a large area to show that it’s rather messed up throughout, but the job title is the main mangle:

Link: Directgov | Universal Jobmatch | Jobs ‘Mad About Books: Computer Opporater’

Computer Opporater

Not Washed or Cooked, # 108

Two wrongs don’t make a right. Oh. Maybe they do…

Link: About.com, ‘The Poetics of Aristole [sic]’

Aristole

Double-take, # 40

An odd variant on an old expression here. Yes, there are foothills (a geographical term), and yes, one can stand at the foot of a hill (where ‘foot’ means the lowest part),* but this is not a viable option:

Link: Coventry Telegraph, ‘Claire unveils tasty plans for Gibbett Hill farm shop’

* Thus confusingly equating to ‘bottom’… Isn’t English wonderful?
feet of the Cotswold hills

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 32

I’m not going to flog this one, although there are many more variants out there. However, following on from yesterday’s mangle, it was hard to resist featuring a couple more accidentally well-educated body parts:

Source: Virginia Andrews, Scattered Leaves (London: Simon & Schuster, 2007), p. 46. Link: Google Books (eBook)

Link: Fitness Magazine [South Africa], Ben Greenfield, ‘Tips to tight and taught skin […]’

taught skin, taught lips

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 31

I came upon a version of this mangle on a website and wondered if it appeared in any books. Oh, yes:

Chris Coulter, The Deal (self-published through Xlibris, 2012), p. 60. Link: Google Books

That was but one of the results returned on a Google search that also offered the correct spelling:

Link: Google search, “taught buttocks”

If you click the Coulter link above you’ll get more (and more sexually explicit) context for the mangle, and it’s worth running the Google search just to see the term in various other (often sexually explicit) hilarious contexts. (Have I made the sexual explicitness warning clear enough?)

taught buttocks

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 108

Source: supposedly personalized page from email link

Hmmm… No, I think I’ll just blacklist you.

Not Washed or Cooked, # 107

Not an exciting or confusing mangle today (and out of context, the meaning isn’t very clear), but still one that shouldn’t be there:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Government to pay rail firms […]’

Double-take, # 39

This is both badly-punctuated and ambiguous:

Link: Daily Star, ‘“You’re lucky I didn’t knock you out” […]’

Investigation reveals that the article discusses a policeman being filmed in the act of threatening a photographer, not a policeman taking footage of a threatening photographer.

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 28

Not a well-placed apostrophe on this DVD cover:

It’s definitely a collection of films from the 1960s, not from 1960.

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 30

A not very unprofessional scam attempt via email:

Not Washed or Cooked, # 106

Dr Faustus has found another error in information posted by and for the Warwick Economics Summit:

Link: Warwick SU, ‘Warwick Economics Summit 2014’

It’s not clear if this is a typographical error or whether someone thinks it’s actually a word.

Not Washed or Cooked, # 105

Dr Faustus has also found this gem:

Source: article by Wilford E. Smith published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 10: 2 (1976), 76-78. Link: Dialogue