Whoops Grauniadâ¦â¦
It does my dyslexic heart good to know that the mighty Grauniad can make so many mistakes that it has to have a âCorrections and Clarifications Column Editorâ â we could do with one around here.
Today they excelled themselves, for the Corrections and Clarifications Editor was forced toâ¦â¦..make corrections and clarifications. He obviously doesnât want to be out of a job, for he has left a deliberate (?) error to make way for tomorrowâs âcorrections and clarifications of corrections and clarifications of corrections and clarificationsââ¦â¦..
See if you can spot it.
This column has itself been guilty of errors in recent days, and months. Here is a roundup of them:
â¢?Charles Kennedy, part 2: a correction â 7 June, page 30 â said that a G2 feature about the Liberal Democrats went awry when it included Charles Kennedy â once a Social Democrat MP, later a Lib Dem leader â among liberals who originally belonged to the Labour party. However, Parliamentary Profiles 1997-2002 (by Andrew Roth and Byron Griddle, volume E-K) records Charles Kennedy as saying, âin Fort William I joined the Labour Party at the age of 15â³ in 1974 (Who agrees with Nick now?, 2 June, page 6).
â¢?Part of a correction â 5 June, page 40 â said that an article had wrongly credited Renzo Piano as the architect of Milanâs San Siro stadium. In the piece, San Siro was among three stadiums listed in the sentence in question, with Pianoâs name bracketed after the last, Bariâs San Nicola stadium. The writer clarifies that only that last stadium was being attributed, rightly, to Piano (Perfect pitch, 31 May, page 18, G2).
â¢?The location of Fintry was âcorrectedâ on 3 April, page 32, to Lanarkshire. Notwithstanding its postcode, Fintry is in Stirlingshire.
â¢?A piece about a day trip from Cape Town â 27 February, page 2, Travel â said that Kalk Bayâs hillside cottages looked on to the Atlantic. That was right (Kalk Bay falling to the west of Cape Agulhas), and should not have been âcorrectedâ to the Indian Ocean in the column of 31 March, page 32.
For the truly tormented you can have the answer tomorrow morningâ¦
Edited to add â my question relates to what is here, however if you go to the Guardianâs page on which this appears, you can spot another howler not an inch or two away for a bonus prize.
June 12, 2010 at 13:02
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No, no, no! You cannot have âontoâ â that is a specialist mathematics word.
In English you must use âon toâ. I have spoken.
June 10, 2010 at 02:32
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Ignoring the possible factual error(s) as posted by others â¦â¦
âdays, and monthsâ there should not be a comma before and
âpart 2: a
correctionâ should be capital A after colon
ânow?, 2 June, page 6).â there
should not be a comma after ?
âon to the Atlanticâ should be onto
âCape
Agulhas), andâ comma before and again
The grammar sucks â seems about right for a âmeejaaâ studies graduateâ
@Grauniad
June 10, 2010 at 01:48
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Thanks to Google I now know there is a Fintry in Aberdeenshire.
This is the offending sentence for the soccerball correction
correction:
âMunichâs Allianz Arena, Milanâs San Siro, Bari (by Renzo Piano), Wembley
(Norman Foster) and Berlinâs beautifully remodelled Olympiastadion show how
far inspiring design can enhance the beautiful game.â
It doesnât mention the San Nicola and it names 4 stadiums not 3.
June 10, 2010 at 01:58
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See, youâve found another one, Fintry in Aberdeenshire.
Tsk! These haggis- gulping, caber tossing, Wallace loving apes are so
repetitious. Next thing theyâll want their âFREEEEEDOMâ!!!!!
PS Guess what happened to the last kilt that shouted so?
June 10, 2010 at 00:06
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Only Jocks would know this without Google.
There are at least two places called âFintryâ in Jockland. One is in
Stirlingshire, the other is in Lanarkshire, therefore the correction was not
required.
Dopey porridge-gobblers. If they spent less time beating their wives and
getting bong-eyed on Special Brew, they might have remembered that they have
already called a place by a certain name before they call another by the
same.
June 10, 2010 at 10:51
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Well they donât have the exclusive on itâ¦
The south has two places called Ashford (Middlesex and Kent)!
June 10, 2010 at 11:07
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And I don
June 9, 2010 at 22:58
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Canât see it. Must be blind. Only guess I can make is its about the Charles
Kennedy story.
How long did it take you to spot it?
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