Tuesday 1 January 2013

'Most trusted' does not necessarily equal correct

Let's start the year with a hideous mangle from a highly reputable international publisher: 


It's hard to understand how this error could have occurred at all, and examples of usage further down the page use real double quotation marks.

The failure to check the content adequately is especially reprehensible given the site's blazoned identifier as 'The world's most trusted dictionaries', and this mangle's location in a section on 'Better writing'
 

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