Some spelling mistakes just make our day. Here’s one that you may wish to avoid. If you like this type of thing, don’t miss these completely unforgivable spelling mistakes. Want to make sure you don’t make stupid mistakes with your written English? Check out our online proofreading services today. Online proofreadersvappingo.com/word-blog
Punctuation isn’t important, right? Wrong… VERY wrong. As one husband’s attempts to market his wife’s cookery blog proves, proper punctuation can spell the difference between a good night in with the wife, a good night in FOR the wife, and a major felony that could well give Hannibal Lecter a run for his money. Don’t … Read more
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Translating one language into another can be a challenging endeavor that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Proof of this can be seen in a brochure that a recent visitor to Beijing received upon boarding her hotel’s shuttle bus.
The brochure contained a literal translation of Mandarin to English. The translation may have been a good attempt but it most certainly would benefit from the help of an online proofreader.
Wouldn’t it be great if these lesser-known proofreading marks were formally introduced into our proofreading services! It would certainly make life more interesting for our proofreaders. Need an online proofreading service? Check out our online services now. Looking for some proofreading fails? Check out 69 excellent reasons why proofreading is important Free instant quote … Read more
Mistakes happen and, if we’re honest, we quite like that fact. It gives us something to have a chuckle at! This week we put our researcher to the task of finding humorous headlines that would have benefitted from our online proofreading services. Here’s our pick of the best: Really? Rather him than me! Four simple … Read more
These proofreading errors contain catastrophic errors of immense proportions. Luckily, the consequences are hilarious!
If you want to avoid making silly mistakes, make sure you engage professional proofreading services.
Advertising copywriting is a hard task. Formulating the perfect combination of words to sum up a product or service while avoiding all innuendos and insults is no mean feat and these slogan writers have failed miserably in their quest to sell a serious product. Luckily, these genius slogans didn’t escape the attention of those of us who prey on mistakes. Here are our favorite slogans of all time. Let us know if you’ve come across any gems.
As the world gets smaller, the art of translation becomes all the more imperative to our ability to communicate with the people on the other side of the world whom we don’t really like but will tolerate because they are not Canadian. Thankfully, when a non-native speaker of a language translates something, there is always … Read more
Forget gender planning, that is so yesterday. No, these days disruptive innovation is conquering new heights, and now your local neighborhood crèche brings you the latest in kindergarten gender reassignment surgery. If you got a boy and were desperately hoping for a sweet little girl, fear not. Drop your kid off here for the day … Read more
This totally outlandish cover letter is actually quite inspiring. On face value, it actually checks all the boxes: grabs attention (check), focuses on why the candidate is different (double check) and avoids cliché phrases that have no real substance (mega-check). However, it’s safe to say that this type of letter isn’t going to get you … Read more
Perhaps it’s the proximity to unidentified chemical foodstuffs that poisons the brain, or maybe the inane repetition of the same tired phrases has slowly driven them all mad. Regardless, you would think that the billions of dollars this major corporation garners from the billions of worshippers of those golden arches, that they could afford to … Read more
Human beings are by our very nature flawed; we are destined to make mistakes at every turn. While some proofreading errors are particularly cringeworthy, others are completely unforgivable, like these…
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One disappointed would-be teacher just can’t believe that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts actually dared to refuse her entry to a teacher training program. It seems that she completely failed her tests for educator licensure.
I, for the life of me, cannot fathom why they would refuse such a fine literacy perfectionist. If she failed a question about chocolate, God knows how she would have fared if she had undergone a grammar test.
Failing to use a punctuation mark, using it in the wrong place, or failing to proofread is one of the most effective methods of transforming a great piece of writing into something that sucks.
These absolutely delightful examples of the way in which punctuation can completely change the meaning of an intended message, are cringeworthy, but brilliant. These guys deserve medals for turning otherwise dull and mundane signs into something that we can all have a laugh at. Editing and proofreading really does matter!
If you love nothing better than a laugh at other people’s mistakes, look no further than the world’s largest social network. Some of these people haven’t actually made a mistake, though; it seems they have an excuse for their esteemed ignoramus status. It matters not that these excuses are as ridiculous as a glow-in-the-dark toilet seat…
This guy was clearly not a fan of either grammar lessons or his grammar teacher at school. Shame really; a bit more concentration in class could well have prevented him from looking like a prize idiot in front of all his Facebook friends… go Mrs. Johanson!
This letter was sent from none other than the Director of Curriculum from a city public school in Alabama. Full of unnecessary quotation marks, spelling mistakes, and absolutely appalling sentence structure, this must be one of the worst letters ever sent from a teacher to the pupils’ parents in the history of formal educational establishments.
He may have been shedding tears of joy, we are shedding tears of dismay!
The English language is being increasingly condensed; sometimes it is appropriate, most of the time it isn’t. Here are 13 occasions when the human tendency to condense words resulted in extremely unfortunate abbreviations, for which we are extremely grateful.
As usual with these things, the contents of some of these pictures are not for the easily offended… the clue’s in the title.
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Editors and proofreaders can be pretty annoying, and their tendency to point out the slightest error in your written English can really grind. You only need to take a quick look at many of the blogs that are published online to see that your written English is better than most. In fact, sometimes you may actually purposefully break the rules of grammar; that’s fine. However, breaking the rules of grammar and vocabulary by mistake is not, and if you use words incorrectly then you just look plain old dumb.
Here are ten words that are commonly completely misused. Familiarize yourself with them and do us all a favor and use them correctly for a change.
The English language is under serious threat from people who like to use made-up words that don’t really exist or who use words they don’t know the real meaning of.
The following seven words are completely made-up items of vocabulary that have crept into the English language and are misused on a very regular basis.
While news of high unemployment among university graduates is indeed rife, you would think that someone who holds the title of “staff reporter” would make absolutely, positively certain that an article berating the value of a college education was flawless—apparently not. Unfortunately for this avid reporter, the only thing this article proves is that journalists … Read more
