Tag: spelling
- 18th January 2010
Excuse the spelling, I’m an English blog powcester
I just stumbled across one of those bits of ‘research’ increasingly pad out our daily newspapers. This time, it’s a study commissioned by Travelodge to reveal the most common spelling mistakes people make when they book holiday destinations. Unsurprisingly, lots of people have trouble spelling the names of places such as Torquay and Morecambe. Well, [...]
- 5th January 2010
Guerilla grammarians win book deal
Am I alone in finding this picture heart warming? I thought not. Meet Benjamin Herson who, with pal Jeff Deck, spent much of 2008 correcting errors on signs and billboards across the USA – and then blogged about it. During their Reign of Error, no grocer’s apostrophe was safe. Good news you might think. Nice [...]
- 22nd August 2009
The top 10 political spelling and grammar failures
I t’s easy enough to make a spelling mistake or grammatical error, especially if you’ve been taught by people who wouldn’t know an adverb if it cheerfully slapped them round the chops with a wet haddock; but, if you’re a politician, it’s best not to do it in public. Sadly, politicians aren’t always the brightest [...]
- 30th July 2009
Typos in the News
A typographical error can cause more than just a red face. A missing ampersand can leave a market-leading browser open to hackers, and a mistake on your SatNav can send you hundreds of miles in the wrong direction. Sometimes pedantry has its place…
