In this article the BBC say that the British Royals sailed 'up' the St. Lawrence from Montréal to Québec City. As a geographer and obsessive BBC-corrector I have duly informed Aunty that they mean 'down'.
This interesting story on BBC online has two bloopers:
"The botnet, known as TDL, targets Windows PCs and tries hard to avoid detection and even harder to shut down."
"The majority of victims, 28%, are in the US but significant numbers are in India (7%) and the UK (5%). Smaller numbers, 3%, are found in France, Germany and Canada."
I'm allowed to make mistakes - I'm an untrained amateur. But the BBC should try harder.
I'm pestering their complaints page.
I have often said that the three best things to come from Britain are the Beatles, Marmite and the BBC. But sometimes I wonder about that last one.
The BBC's on-line presence seems to be making more and more style, accuracy and grammar mistakes. I often report them to their feedback site, including this example which pertains to my greatest fear - general public acceptance of apostrophes misplaced into plurals.
"One proposal that was approved was a requirement that unopposed candidate's for the company's board receive a majority in order to be appointed." [link]
Or perhaps I'm just very old-fashioned.
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