From the Grammar Police

Spell check on aisle five!

Keith Nelson

The towns in New Jersey and Florida are spelled Manalapan. How many people at this real estate office looked at this before it was printed?

Watch that autocorrect!

Eliot’s Florida Gators football team signed a promising prospect under the radar? Exciting! Someone sang under the radar? Meh.

The legendary singer-songwriter took what state? They’re pretty big. Even Rhode Island. Oh. She took the stage. Got it.

People who can’t spell the name of Jack Nicholson, one of our great actors, aren’t worth a plugged nichol.

We hope against hope that this person was a victim of autocorrect and was in a hurry. The alternative would make us want to, well, bawl.

And we go to the video archives! Click for Segment 3: Tight Writing

Readers: "Something Went Horribly Wrong" features samples of bad writing we see nearly every day. You can participate! Be our duly deputized “grammar police.” Your motto: “To protect and correct.” Send in your photos of store signs, street signs, menus, TV news graphics, newspaper headlines, tweets, and so on. It doesn’t have to be a grammatical error. It can be just what we call “cowardly writing.” Include your name and home town so we can credit you properly. You're free to add a comment, although we reserve the right to edit or omit. Now get out there! Send to Eliot@eliotkleinberg.com

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