Not Washed or Cooked, # 225

An insensitive typographical error spotted by Dr Faustus:

Link: The Guardian, ‘Sir Christopher Bayly obituary’

The headline formulation is sloppy too: ‘obituary’ either needs to be made a content-type heading (Sir Christopher Bayly: Obituary or Obituary: Sir Christopher Bayly) or the text rephrased to make the term sound less like part of the man’s name (Obituary of Sir Christopher Bayly) — and when did academic professional titles cease to take initial capitals?

profressor

Not Washed or Cooked, # 224

Not, despite the headline (see link below), a continuation of yesterday’s food theme, but Independent carelessness renaming a London Borough:

Link: The Independent, ‘Jeremy Paxman gets grilled […]’

Kensigton

Not Washed or Cooked, # 223

Fun with food… First, a typographical error adjacent to the correctly-spelt packet (spelling, but not punctuation, now corrected):

Link: Coles, Maggi ‘One Pan: Chicken Pumpkin & Spinch Risotto Meal Base’

Some rather insistent misspelling:

Link: Toledo News Now, ‘Grilled Rack of Veal […]’

spinch; spinich

Not Washed or Cooked, # 222

Today’s mangle is a variant of yesterday’s, but even more heinous given the source — don’t miss the publication’s tagline — and the fact that the error has stood uncorrected for over four years:

Link: The Norway Post, ‘Norwgian air base in Scotland?’

Norwgian for Norwegian

Not Washed or Cooked, # 221

A world news publication should carefully check its country-based spellings:

Link: World Bulletin (Turkey), Norwagian candidate wants mosque to increase immigration

Norwagian for Norwegian

Not Washed or Cooked, # 220

Here, the writer’s fingers may simply have followed a familiar routine, resulting — in the absence of spell-checking and proofreading — in something quite odd:

Link: Herald Sun (Melbourne), ‘Australian men’s basketball team crush Finalnd […]’

Finalnd for Finland

Mangling Meaning, # 29

It would seem that over-excitement has once again affected The Independent’s ability to construct a coherent and grammatically-correct sentence. It was going so well, too:

Link: The Independent, ‘Richard Hammond “gutted” about Jeremy Clarkson sacking […]’

he left the possibility of him and May continuing without Clarkson

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 80

Dr Faustus found this on Amazon:

Link: Amazon.co.uk, Marguerite Duras, The Lover, ‘From the Back Cover’

Despite appearing in the ‘From the back cover’ section of the page, the mangle is not the publisher’s, as a screenshot of the back cover on Amazon’s ‘Look Inside’ feature shows:

Investigation has not revealed the origin of the error, which seems to date back several years, but it has certainly been disseminated widely over the Internet.

Link: Google search for "frances coveted prix goncourt"

Frances’ coveted Prix Goncourt

Double-take, # 148

This comes from Just Liam:

He remarks: ‘Tell me if I’m wrong, but I don’t want to be sexuring any candles if I’m not supposed to be doing so.’ Indeed. I wonder if the ambiguous capitalized instruction is intended to work as a subliminal message…

sexure for secure

You Cannot Be Serious, # 44

This mangle has already been featured a few times and, as before, it’s the source of the error that makes it particularly reprehensible. This one, contributed by Dr Faustus, comes from a closed questionnaire on the website of an academic publisher:

less for fewer

Multimangle, # 15

Another contribution from Dr Faustus. This press release, reproduced verbatim on the Coombe Monthly website, offers a confusion of dates, some odd diction and punctuation, and, as both heading and subject line, a couple of nasty apostrophe catastrophes:

The Lib-Dems have sold us out, we need a workers MP on a workers wage; TUSC supporters held a protest yesterday (Monday 4 April) to protest […]; email date 7 April, press release date 7 March

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 177

Dr Faustus has sent this extract from an emailed recruitment circular, which demonstrates a failure to proofread, an absence of logical hyphenation and an abrupt shift in perspective:

a supervisors; third person to second person shift