A feast of illiteracy from the Times and the Sunday Times, papers with great reputations being daily trashed by the morons in charge. I don’t know what the subbing system is at these papers but surely at least two people (the sub and the chief sub) must see copy before it is published – and there should be several other layers of checking given that they are employing halfwits.
Times, October 11, 2024
The past tense of ‘shine’ is not ‘shined’ but ‘shone’. This is pathetic.
Sunday Times, October 13, 2024
‘Whose’ is an interrogative word in line with ‘why’, ‘where’ and ‘when’, for example ‘Whose shoes are these?’ while what is wanted here is ‘Who’s’, a contraction of ‘Who is’.
Sunday Times, October 13, 2024
It is scarcely believable that anyone thinks the abbreviation of ‘parachute’ is not ‘chute’ but ‘shoot’ yet here is the proof.