Merseymart Newspaper

I am not a big reader of newspapers or magazines so as yet I have failed to find any errors in a printed publication - barring restaurant menu's of course. :-) But yesterday, the 27th January 2011 Merseymart newspaper (a local Liverpool newspaper) was staring at me begging to be read, so I though why not? I'll give it a go.

In this printed paper I managed to find 3 errors, which I suppose isn't too bad when you think about how much content there is in a newspaper. One of them was an advert so the paper themselves couldn't really be blamed, though had it been checked properly, maybe they could have had it changed.

Anyway here goes. To the left is the offending advert. Now there is nothing wrong with the language (that I noticed) but I'm thinking that maybe they should have updated their advert for a spot in a newspaper in January. As you will see, this company is offering guaranteed delivery for Christmas if ordered NOW! Well I should bloody well hope so really, it's 11 months away! Obviously this has been left on from their November/December 2010 advert, but it's a silly mistake to make!











The article to the right is about a man who tried to hold up numerous bookies with a vacuum cleaner he pretended was a shotgun. The mistake is in the second paragraph, 4th line down and is the simple mistake of thinking of two different ways to write a sentence and part of both comes out - the sentence reads 'Steve McCouid carried out a two-day reign of terror across Liverpool last month, raiding three bookies with his the attachment, which he kept in a plastic bag, pretending it was a shotgun.' I'm guessing no-one bought this act since he failed to successfully rob any of them. Anyway the error comes where the author writes his and the next to each other in the sentence, obviously having not decided whether to write 'with his attachment' or 'with the attachment'. Though I believe the latter option sounds the best.

This final article is a reader offer to go and stay in the Waldorf Hotel for a 'ridiculously low price.' The error here is a missing word in the first paragraph. The article should ideally begin with "It's a real treat..." A small, silly error but it slipped through the net yet again!