Is it just me that gets irritated by the spelling, grammar and general lack of reading the words before hitting the publish button.
Seems to happen in every field these days.
Rant over.
Drier is an adjective, it is used to describe wetness among two or more objects. Dryer is a noun. It means a person or thing that removes water. In the US, it means an appliance that uses heat and a spinning bin to remove moisture from clothes and other fabrics.
So in the UK is the appliance a "drier" and therefore a noun as well or does it have another name? From recent news maybe it's called a fire hazard.
Dialysis, damned if you do...dead if you don't 25 Sep 2020 03:34:47pm
re: BBC standards
Same kind of issues here in the US. A few years back my local newspaper had the front page headline Floridians Flea Fires
I can see a misspelling buried in an article deep in the back pages, but the front page headline!?! I guess it passed the computer spell checker...
Don
When we came to Canada I was doing some gardening work and the local paper "Minnedosa Tribune" did a front page piece the head line for which was to the effect I had worked for "The Princess of Whales". I had actually worked in Kensington Gardens, although occasionally in the Palace grounds.
I just could not imagine what her family would have thought.
The best British example was when the national newspaper The Guardian (originally the Manchester Guardian) renamed itself on its front page name banner "The Grauniad". this may just be an urban legend, but the paper was fairly famous for its misspellings.
I was a layout editor for my college newspaper. I misspelled Wednesday as "Wedsnesday" on a front page headline. My professors made sure to tell me that they noticed the mistake. I still have not lived it down - and of course it is in the college archives. (This was before most computer typesetting days).
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