>>5996
It would say bad things about your attention to detail if you hadn't. This goes for more or less every major news organisation one reads regularly.

>>5996
All the fucking time. It's the main reason why I don't read the news on the BBC website anymore.

>>5996
>>5997
Those are live blog posts as far as I can tell, which are prone to errors for obvious reasons.

More importantly, the BBC and other big media increasingly seems to opt for clickbait.

>>6001
The Independent is probably amongst the worst these days

He grew up his grandfather's house

>>6003
Yet people still think weed is harmless.

"to reduce to the minimum the time needed".

>>6005
Clumsy but correct.

Oh God it's spreading.

>>6007

The All-Father takes what is his to take.

What really bothers me is that BBC news thinks that the only superlative that exists is "massive".

>>6009

Don't worry, John Whittingdale's going to get on at them about giving undue bias in favour of all that which is massive soon.

What? He's the Culture Secretary. Look it up if you don't believe me.

>>6009
That annoys me massively.

>>6010
It's true. I saw him on the telly on Sunday handing over a trophy of some kind.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-33480569

"Police apologise for three-day delay in M9 fatal crash", everyone knows it's M7!

It is what happens when you sack the sub-eds: journocunts are not renowned for their use of language, that is the editor's job. Feel free to substitute "journocunt" for "author" as well, should you wish.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3KmYMxxyRTVQsF4KtVVW9Tg/why-all-artists-should-have-naked-ambition

Now they're ripping off content from tabloids.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33578174

>>6020
Sorry, what do you mean "now"? They've always done that.

Not capitalising Internet.

>>6081
Yeah, the rest of the world resolved that issue a decade ago, mate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3613594.stm

>>6083
So is it "emailed" or "e-mailed"?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33687718/how-to-remove-embarrassing-facebook-and-twitter-posts

Should be parents not parent.

Missing quotation mark.

>>6119

I'm going to admit my own ignorance here because I see that all the time in print journalism and assumed it was an accepted style of open-form quotation.

>>6119
No. Look again at the following paragraph.

You should probably find something better to do with your life than misidentify errors in BBC news articles.

>>6120
It is.

>>6119
Has anyone else noticed schoolboy mistakes on the gs website?

>>6125

Has anyone else noticed you being a fucking queer?

>>6128
On the occasions I'm being fucking queer, yeah.

>>6128

IQ adventurer.

>>6131

Is that available to pre-order yet?

In June some 600,000 payments failed to reach enter the accounts of RBS customers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34084767

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/34141910
An FIA statement summarised

>>6136
50/50 ball. Strictly should be "A" but will be pronounced "An" in speech.

>>6136

Well 'an' is not just for vowels, but for vowel sounds.

'F' can be argued to have a phonetic vowel sound in it: 'an FBI investigation..' etc. The same way that Americans will say 'an herb' because their pronunciation of 'h' can sometimes carry a vowel sound.

>>6138
>Well 'an' is not just for vowels, but for vowel sounds.
"Federal" does not begin with a vowel sound.

>>6139
But you don't say "Federal", you say "eff".

>>6140
In speech, but not in writing. In writing, unless it's an acronym, the abbreviation replaces what it stands for.

>>6141

FBI is an acronym.

>>6142
No it's not.

>>6143
Yes it is.

>>6144
I stand corrected. In which case it should be "a FBI" since the pronunciation "fibby" starts with a consonant sound.

>>6145

Look m8 I've watched all nine series of the x-files in the last couple of months and they all say "eff bee eye" all the time.

>>6146

I've gotten stalled on series 5. Those monster of the week episodes scare me. Not because they're frightening, just because it feels like a lucky dip of quality.

>>6146
So then it ain't an acronym after all. Fuck's sake, make up your minds, lads.

>>6147

I don't know what series it is in, but there was a guy who could talk on peoples illnesses, ailments and diseases. I first watched it when I was 15 and I remember thinking If I had it I could save my Grandad, who raised me, from cancer and because I was younger I'd have a better chance of fighting it off. When I told him this, it was the first time I ever seen the man cry.

>>6148

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

F.B.I (eff bee eye), you daft cunt.

>>6150
I'm getting confused here. I've said it isn't an acronym, and you seem to be agreeing that it isn't an acronym, having just posted the evidence that it isn't an acronym.

>>6151

I'm not sure you know what an acronym is, lad.

"An acronym is an abbreviation, used as a word, which is formed from the initial components in a phrase or a word. Usually these components are individual letters (as in NATO..."

or you know.... FBI.

Acronyms don't have to be pronounced as they're written as the acronym SPQR only proves.

>>6151>>6152

Unless you're going to go full pedant and pull us into the Initialism vs Acronym debate, at which point everything becomes futile anyway because FBI as an initialism would still be pronounced "eff bee eye" and would therefore be used in the construction "an FBI investigation".

QED

>>6152
>used as a word
>FBI
Have a word with yourself, lad.

>>6154

> used as a word
> Have a word

I do hope that was an attempt at a joke. If not I invite you to go back retest your logic, this time using the acronyms SCSI, CPU, GUI, and SQL. Let me know which ones you think are words because there are valid pronunciations of them, and which ones you remain convinced are not words. Then try and work which, if any, are acronyms. Boy, this is fun.

Or, you know, just see >>6153

> everything becomes futile anyway because FBI as an initialism would still be pronounced "eff bee eye" and would therefore be used in the construction "an FBI investigation"

Is it 5pm yet? I need a drink.

>>6153
>FBI as an initialism would still be pronounced "eff bee eye" and would therefore be used in the construction "an FBI investigation".
No. As it is not an acronym, in writing you would use the article that goes with what it stands for, because that's what "stands for" means.

>>6156
>the acronyms SCSI, CPU, GUI, and SQL
Yes, no, yes, and depending on the speaker, in that order. Acronyms are abbreviations used as words, which means they have their own pronunciations. If an abbreviation is used as is a word then it's an acronym and treated a word. If it's not used as a word then it's not an acronym and instead treated as if the words it abbreviates were there instead. Most acronyms are initialisms. Some initialisms are acronyms.

>>6155

Behead those who pronounce GUI as "goo-ey".

>>6156
>>6158

> Yes, no, yes, and depending on the speaker, in that order.

To say a construction can be an acronym or an initialism according to the whims of the speaker is some serious quantum-linguistical nonsense.

I can imagine the scene now: "Much like observing a photon, we won't know if Donald and Raymond's new database language known as 'SQL' will be an acronym or an initialism until one of them pronounce it for the first time, thus revealing the true nature of the word".

> Acronyms [to] have their own pronunciations

So you would say that the statement "SPQR is an acronym" is false?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym lists quite a few "recursive acronyms" that have no valid pronunciation that I could think of.

>>6160
>To say a construction can be an acronym or an initialism according to the whims of the speaker is some serious quantum-linguistical nonsense.
Welcome to the English language. If you think that's odd, wait until you see people use adjectives as nouns and nouns as verbs.

The IchorCoal clipper set off to on the 6,000 mile journey to Brazil on 30 August

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34162728

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2cW0Px8xhSXqzDbr5jMdHRB/i-was-there-worst-gadget-in-history-launch-1985

Merged the title from another article.

This one's pretty bad.

I've been noticing a lot of mistakes in the i newspaper lately. Surely they check these things before printing.

Not a mistake, but thought this quote of an official calling someone autistic was worth mentioning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34307745

Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu called Hungary's actions "autistic and unacceptable".

Their feature on housing benefit refers to the issue of why rents have risen as "the $6 million question".

>>6168

That will only be an issue to those people who get offended at stuff on behalf of others, basically guardian readers.

>>6170
Also autistic people, who will be confused at the use of "autistic" to describe something other than actual autism.

"could be limited driving into the city centre."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34257424

The court heard they no shoes, inadequate clothing and were unsupervised.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-34491753

Useful...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34559870/vin-diesel-online-abuse-is-the-dark-side-of-fame

They forgot to close the quotation marks.

>>6193
We're not falling for that again.

Sometimes I imagine a gs minigame where we try to spot grammar errors. There could be peer review and a leaderboard and everything.

This thread illustrates why it's the worst idea ever.

>>6193

Ross Kemp has let himself go.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24022774

"fleet-of-foot police officer"
Should be plural.

>>6197
We're not falling for that one either.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34758441

Its claims to have downed the Airbus were initially treated with scepticism.

Should be an apostrophe for it's.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>6217
I hope that was a lifetime ban.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29529578

Hah.