Mea Culpa: racked with guilt about hare-brained schemes
Funny spellings and other language changes in this week’s Independent
Corrections
Mea Culpa: It was a news story, not a geography quiz
Location, location, location, and other rules broken in this week’s Independent
Mea Culpa: Yes, Ms Prime Minister
Theresa May’s title, and begging questions with bated breath in this week’s Independent
Mea Culpa: The phrase that launched a thousand jokes about Boris
Rules of royal succession and words that sound similar with different meanings in this week’s Independent
Mea Culpa: How to say the opposite of what you mean
Substitution, mixed metaphors and Americanisms in The Independent this week
Mea Culpa: Inelegant variation in ancient books
Journalese, unnecessary words and mixed geography metaphors in this week’s Independent
Mea Culpa: unexpected bumps in the smooth path of language
Tautology, confusion and 134 uses of an unnecessary word in this week’s Independent
Mea Culpa: can a natural feature be a trademark?
Patented rocks, words with opposite meanings and other style glitches in this week’s Independent
Mea Culpa: We have strayed into unknown territory without a charter
Charts and charters, hard wiring and other hackneyed phrases in The Independent
Mea Culpa: Stop the exponential growth in existentialism
Long posh words and a homophone emergency in this week’s Independent
Mea Culpa: Above and beyond the proverbial call of duty
Style glitches and a misplaced reverence for experts in this week’s Independent
Mea Culpa: the gold standard of grammar and style
Clichés from political history in this week’s Independent, plus some fossilised words and phrases that could easily be brought to life
Mea Culpa: a splash of passion fruity on your palate
Words that sound alike, clichés and redundant adjectives from this week’s Independent
Mea Culpa: Multiple examples of when ‘several’ would do
Stylistic infelicities, mixed metaphors and a strange ‘lightbulb moment’ from The Independent this week
Mea Culpa: Resign! Enough of this stale and mistaken chess metaphor
Infelicities of style, grammar and unconventional sex in this week’s Independent
Mea Culpa: Subordinating what-junctions?
Would The Independent pass the Government's primary-school spelling and grammar test, which caught out the schools minister this week?
Errors and Omissions: Too many facts can give you the wrong picture
Our letters editor takes to task this week's Independent coverage
Errors and Omissions: An introduction that paints an all too familiar
Our letters editor takes to task this week's Independent coverage
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Errors and Omissions: Lost on a meandering trail of confusing
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Errors and omissions: Who decides what to call an extremist group?
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Errors and Omissions: In thrall to a word that we don’t quite
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Errors and Omissions: When does a quote become an ‘outburst’?
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Errors and Omissions: How to make a drama out of a few inaccuracies
Errors and Omissions: This awkward construction won’t bring music to
Our chief political commentator takes to task this week's Independent coverage
Errors and Omissions: Some news reports don’t quite hit the right
Our letters editor takes to task this week's Independent coverage
L.S. Lowry painting
The L.S. Lowry painting featured in our article ‘Antique dealers leave the good old days behind’ (20 May) is owned by art dealers Macconnal Mason, not by Mallett, as we said. Our apologies for the error.