Appalling English and grammar in Daily Mail website articles
Leicester_Hunk
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I've just started reading an article about Jenny Jones winning the snowboarding bronze this afternoon. One of the bulleted subheadings states:
I've not read the rest of the article but this one about last night's Splash! is littered with ridiculous errors.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2550225/When-The-Going-Gets-Tough-Boyzones-Keith-Duffy-triumphs-splash-against-Michaela-Strachan-diving-final.html
"Despite having to manage to tricky dives in the semi-final ......"
"Diversity dancer Perri Kiel would be going straight through to the final ....."
"When it came to judging time GB diving coach Andy Banks chose to put Keith through to the final, Comedian Jo Brand put Michaela through ......"
"Keith flashed a serious amount of flesh, with his shamrock Speedo's slipping not once, but twice as he entered the pool, nearly loosing his shorts completely and showing his bare bum to the underwater cameras."
How do these people get jobs in the first place never mind hang on to them?
- The 33-year-old managed what no Britain had achieved in 90 years
I've not read the rest of the article but this one about last night's Splash! is littered with ridiculous errors.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2550225/When-The-Going-Gets-Tough-Boyzones-Keith-Duffy-triumphs-splash-against-Michaela-Strachan-diving-final.html
"Despite having to manage to tricky dives in the semi-final ......"
"Diversity dancer Perri Kiel would be going straight through to the final ....."
"When it came to judging time GB diving coach Andy Banks chose to put Keith through to the final, Comedian Jo Brand put Michaela through ......"
"Keith flashed a serious amount of flesh, with his shamrock Speedo's slipping not once, but twice as he entered the pool, nearly loosing his shorts completely and showing his bare bum to the underwater cameras."
How do these people get jobs in the first place never mind hang on to them?
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Dey reed four degrees in Meeja Bollox.
(Readies QI klaxon).
Probably use of the capital C (in the post) to denote a definite article or name. This is not usually used when refering to a generic job title. Some people also still refer to the gender-specific job title 'comedienne' rather than 'comedian'.
As they have done. But it doesn't require an initial capital. Or, they should have used a full stop before it instead of a comma.
There doesn't seem to be a clear style guide. If you read a match report, one will hyphenate 'centre-back', the other won't. The former is considered correct.
Just for an example, go to their own search bar and type in 'solider' - meant to be soldier - and see how many headlines come up with it in!
Is my post invisible? I answered this two posts before yours and then other people reiterate what I have said.
A year or two ago we had a reference to "higher purchase", and in 2012 a reference to QE2's sixty years of "servitude".
Magnificent ignorance and ineptitude.:)
Alternate meanings;
Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts.
Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you
are run over by a steamroller.
Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
Negligent (adj.) , describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightie.
Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.
Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanour assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you.
Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
Just a guess here, (I know that it's acceptable to call both male and female comics comedians), but maybe the complainers wanted her to be described as a comedienne, even if they don't think that she's funny.
I think it's the upper case C. (I saw your post, Terry!)
Oops.
Grammar is one thing but American spelling and pronunciation is not "wrong". In fact, as America is now the dominant power, it can be said to have the "correct" English standard. Most people around the world when they want to learn English tend to learn American English.