The ramblings of a pseudointellectal…or a genuine idiot?

A hard habit to brake

Prosecutors say the emergency break [sic], which could have prevented the accident, had been intentionally disabled.

BBC News droid

In my drive to be a better person, by not picking on the BBC's adjectival ineptitude, should I extend that to homophones?


It seems that ol' Auntie's rectified her mistake. Should you think that I was hallucinating, or that my copy/paste skills are as shonky as the BBC editorial staff's, the Wayback Machine has saved it for posterity. Or until it falls over.

Then: screenshot of BBC article showing misspelling of 'brake' as 'break'

Now: screenshot of BBC article showing corrected spelling