What's up with the BBC these days? From a time when "BBC English" indicated the highest standards of grammar and punctuation, it seems to have declined to a point where not even its headlines get properly proofread. Here are some random examples of scrambled English found on the BBC News website today:
Ohio animal Terry Thompson owner shot himself - police
The uprising that eventually overthrew him started in Libya's February 2011 in second city Benghazi,
Another story spells skis as skies and minuscule as miniscule (the word comes from the same root as minus, not miniature).
Has the BBC's budget been cut to the point where correct English is no longer affordable!
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