Today, a few examples of a rather common error, which should be flagged by any spell-checker and/or be picked up easily when proofreading.
The first is from the digital version of 2013 Songwriter’s Market:*
This one is from a page about available ‘Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education Data’ on the MassLegal Services website, and also includes ― or should that be inlcudes? ― a mangled and:
The others are both from The Telegraph:
Researching this, I came upon a rather jolly blog called Typo of the Day for Librarians, which sadly seems not to have been updated recently, but which covered today’s mangle, and further variants, on 30 July, 2008 and 20 March, 2013.
* Edited by Roseann Biederman. Blue Ash, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 2012. The error appears on p. 186 of the printed version.
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