Welcome

Dear all

Welcome to my new blog, focusing on the mistakes and downright bad English that can be found in various outlets for the written word. I seem to have found a lot recently, enough to warrant a separate blog from my other one. The errors I have found in recent weeks have mostly come from emails from well-known companies, restaurant menus and a new one, sent to me by a friend, in an online article.

I will import all my previous posts in this area to keep them all together. I would like to stress now that my English isn't perfect and I don't know all the rules and my intention is not to berate or preach, just to inform. I will also inevitably make spelling errors and typos myself.

In the case of publications, I can understand how many of the mistakes are made, it's very easy for your fingers to slip on the keyboard and hit an extra letter, but what I don't understand is why these emails aren't checked before being sent en masse to the public.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my posts and please get in touch if you find any of your own - just send me the error, along with where you found it and I will post it on here - giving you all the credit of course!