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Topic ID 6863
04/11/2012 by buzz
Mercury
Have just been looking at the headline pages of the Mercury online, (the free ones) and can't believe the elementary errors in both the spelling and factual inaccuracies it contains.
1. Reporting on an accident in New Road Bengeo, it states that police closed off the road at "Bandley" Drive. It was "Boundary" Drive.
2. The caption at the top of the article states "AN elderly and woman were taken to hospital".
3. Reporting on a fatal RTA the story states, "An Audi A3 was being "persued" by four police cars.
I would have thought that despite their obvious lack of basic English that they might at least have used Spell Check.
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Reply ID 90853
04/11/2012 by Leo Densian
You missed this one:
"Two other people were also injured in the incident on the Great North Road (B197) at Woolmer Green, at 2.39am and were taken to Harlow's Lister Hospital for treatment".
Reply ID 90854
04/11/2012 by Sudi
Standards of English are, sadly, lacking in general nowadays.
Reply ID 90856
04/11/2012 by buzz
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Originally posted by Leo Densian
You missed this one:
"Two other people were also injured in the incident on the Great North Road (B197) at Woolmer Green, at 2.39am and were taken to Harlow's Lister Hospital for treatment".
Fair do's .....
Reply ID 90860
04/11/2012 by James007
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Originally posted by buzz
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Originally posted by Leo Densian
You missed this one:
"Two other people were also injured in the incident on the Great North Road (B197) at Woolmer Green, at 2.39am and were taken to Harlow's Lister Hospital for treatment".
Fair do's .....
At last, the missing apostrophe has been found.
Reply ID 90861
04/11/2012 by buzz
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Originally posted by James007
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Originally posted by buzz
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Originally posted by Leo Densian
You missed this one:
"Two other people were also injured in the incident on the Great North Road (B197) at Woolmer Green, at 2.39am and were taken to Harlow's Lister Hospital for treatment".
Fair do's .....
Placed there for your benefit dear boy!
At last, the missing apostrophe has been found.
Reply ID 90862
04/11/2012 by James007
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Originally posted by buzz
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Originally posted by James007
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Originally posted by buzz
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Originally posted by Leo Densian
You missed this one:
"Two other people were also injured in the incident on the Great North Road (B197) at Woolmer Green, at 2.39am and were taken to Harlow's Lister Hospital for treatment".
Fair do's .....
Placed there for your benefit dear boy!
At last, the missing apostrophe has been found.
[:)]
Reply ID 92707
14/02/2013 by James007
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Originally posted by buzz
Have just been looking at the headline pages of the Mercury online, (the free ones) and can't believe the elementary errors in both the spelling and factual inaccuracies it contains.
1. Reporting on an accident in New Road Bengeo, it states that police closed off the road at "Bandley" Drive. It was "Boundary" Drive.
2. The caption at the top of the article states "AN elderly and woman were taken to hospital".
3. Reporting on a fatal RTA the story states, "An Audi A3 was being "persued" by four police cars.
I would have thought that despite their obvious lack of basic English that they might at least have used Spell Check.
It was a violent Pancake Day in Puckeridge.
http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/Hertfordshire/Flipping-good-time-for-pancake-day-20130213172803.htm
A FLIPPING good time was had by all at a Puckeridge school that marked Shove Tuesday. Reply ID 92709
14/02/2013 by Steve
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Originally posted by James007
A FLIPPING good time was had by all at a Puckeridge school that marked Shove Tuesday.
LOL [:D]
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