Not Washed or Cooked, # 302

Via Mo Juste, this is not a rarely-mangled word, but the form of the mangle is uncommon:

Link: Northampton Chronicle & Echo, ‘Werid Menagerie of Impossible on Stage’

Werid for weird

Multimangle, # 47

Dr Faustus reports a sticky space bar at Shakespeare’s Globe (the first instance now corrected on the webpage, although the space seems to have been lifted from the later section on The White Devil, ‘Webster’stragedy’) in a synopsis that also uses revenge in a less than meaningful manner:

Link: Shakespeare’s Globe, ‘Read Not Dead’

Cervantes’influence, andraucously, anepisode, withthe, revenge for avenge

Double-take, # 219

This new take on Easter comes from a blog which, although its title refers to husband and wife, seems from its style to be written by a woman with her children very much in mind:

Link: A Curry of a Life: The Adventures of Christine and Lyndon, ‘Monday, 1 April 2013, Easter Weekend’

Waster for Easter

Double-take, # 218

The penultimate seasonal mangle of Easter 2016 comes from Waitrose (and has been sitting in the ‘seasonal’ folder since last year, awaiting its moment). It’s hard to tell whether it is a typographical slip or an attempt to make an unfamiliar word logical:

Link: Waitrose Media Centre, ‘Sinmel Cake’

Sinmel cake

Not Washed or Cooked, # 301

‘Chris is risen’ reads a sign made for Acomb Parish Church (reported by the BBC). Meanwhile…

Link: Valley News, 14: 17 (25 April–1 May, 2014), p. 5

Esater

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 228

Today’s seasonal offering brings a range of mangles wrapped a short paragraph and finished with an astoundingly apt typographical slip:

Link: Community Restaurants’ Blog, ‘So how well did Restaurants do this Easter?’

the the; thats; 16830000; Fifty one; holiday themed buffet; in that order respectively; traditional Eater meal

The Wrong Word Entirely, # 99

A Good Friday mangle from the food database of a fitness website. It is not ultimately clear whether the misnaming of the foodstuff is due to a typographical error or to genuine confusion, but, as a bonus, the the name of the source is mangled too:

Link: myfitnesspal, ‘Calories in Wait rose Diet hot cross bum’

Wait rose Diet hot cross bum

Multimangle, # 46

The first of a short series of seasonal mangles. Today’s come from a blog that seems to have been created quite recently. The author is not identified.

Link: Happy Easter Bunnies Chocolate Rabbit Photos & Pictures 2016,
‘Happy Easter Sunday Activities For Children’s 2016’

Celebrations on the holy week; Munday Thursday; last super; So friends we hope that you have done all the latest all the latest collection for you. faces on near and dear ones

Singular or Plural? # 18

Presently going the rounds online is this confusion of grammatical number. It started so well…

poverty and low pay were […] It was

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 111

Running since 1950, and discussed regularly in the news, this radio soap’s title is The Archers…

Link: The Telegraph, ‘The Archer’s [sic] domestic abuse plot […]’

The Archer’s

Multimangle, # 45

From the inbox of Dr Faustus. It started off quite well, but then went very wrong…

What is your name and contact number? Where do you buy your clothes, please list 5 online and high street stops in orderr of preference?

Mangling Meaning, # 36

Dr Faustus has submitted this snapshot from a BBC report which has since been much (and tacitly) rewritten. (The original text is reproduced verbatim here and elsewhere online.) In the second paragraph here, further comments from an expert previously quoted are reported very badly, and the punctuation seems to have been inserted at random:

Link: BBC News, ‘How low can the oil price go – and what is the impact?’

He adds that a great level of unrest might add a geopolitical unrest – and consequent worries about supplies – might push prices higher. But not by much, he says.