RSSThe Decline Of The English Language
September 23, 2006 · Written by Joel
Much has been written on the decline of the English language and where applicable I weigh in my tuppence worth. Our language is changing. It always has been and always will be. Declining? No. Changing? Yes.
That is what I thought, until I saw this.
Not one, but two spelling errors in the Daily Mail advert from the London version of the free morning Metro newspaper on September 21st 2006. “challanged” and “appllingly”? Now, I know that not everyone is the greatest speller, but that’s what you use a spell checker for, right? Possibly they ran out of vowels and when someone actually found an ‘a’ they popped it into the wrong word.
I will also ignore the “Skinny moi?” headline as I no longer have the energy to go into what’s wrong with that… Tok 2 u ltr.
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I’ve spotted another mistake as well – what’s with the apostrophe in “it’s”? Spelling mistakes, punctuation errors and the Daily Mail – what more could you want?
Adam
Metro is bad but The London Paper is worse. But Time Out has discovered the reason: this week’s truth, disguised as the weekly feature “Lies To Tell Tourists” reads:
New freesheet The London Paper is put together every day by 15-year-old entrepreneur Benjamin Griffiths in his Crouch End bedroom. He writes all the stories and takes all the pictures himself, though his mum sometimes helps with the spelling.
That’s nice. My Mum still helps me with mine too…