I blame the comprehensive schools for these silly mistakes. You don't just see them in blogs like this (after all we are all typing as best we can and not really paying too much attention, so we can be excused occasional lapses) but you also see the same errors in newspapers, magazines, on TV in subtitles and in official documents. It seems that someone decided some time ago that spelling and clear expression no longer mattered.
Although Sainsbury have now corrected '10 items or less' to read '10 items or fewer' - I wonder who told them.
I'm fed up with presenters on TV and radio who think that an idyll is an ideal and a memento is a momento, it makes you wonder just how little they think they have to prepare for their easy money. The worst example recently was that total prat Julia Bradbury who was presenting Country File from Badminton and referred to it throughout as Badmington.
When an utterly talent free and unfunny female 'comedian' (Miranda Hart) recently won a handful of awards (demonstrating how low our standards and expectations have fallen) some ignoramus at the BBC typed 'A new series is in the offering', like 'ideal' and 'momento' it sounded right to them. The word 'offing' is in the dictionary but it would have been too much trouble to check first wouldn't it?
PS Thanks for pointing the 'wood trim' out for me, Chris, I'd missed that. An American did ask me if it was really wood though.
We just have to hold our breath and count slowly to ten.
