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A blog about English language use, publishing and the media in general – brought to you by a sub-editor (copy editor) on a weekly UK magazine and his former chief sub.
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Headline: Grant seals return to Portsmouth
I first saw this headline out of context - in a giant news ticker in the window of my local Sainsbury's supermarket. It left me wondering what Grant seals were, and why they had abandoned Portsmouth in the first place. Perhaps the water was too pollu...
Eggcorns: brown flakes
There was a nice eggcorn on the BBC TV show Young, Dumb and Living off Mum on Sunday night.One of the remaining contestants, Dina, was surprised to learn that bran flakes are indeed called bran flakes and not 'brown flakes' as she had always thought....
Tom Watson and a dangling modifier
Here's a nice golf-related dangling modifier from a recent BBC Sport story:The paragraph in question is this one:Having won five Opens and three Senior British Opens, including the 2003 tournament at Turnberry, the adoring British crowd had roared on...
