Friday 10 May 2013

Not Washed or Cooked, # 26

Here are some examples of a not-uncommon mangle that shouldn't have got through a proofread, and clearly didn't have a spell-check. First, a headline:


The writer may not have been responsible for the headline, of course, but it does make you wonder whether the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development is an institute where spelling doesn't matter…

Now some copy, so definitely the fault of the writer, Stuart Kelly:


And finally, a heading that undermines the authority of anything else on the page:


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