Last week we bought you our 10 best Mancunians

The supplements that you get with your newspaper keep getting bigger and bigger.

Last week The Guardian came with ten Mancunians. I have no idea where to put them, and am a bit worried that the council will not take them away for recycling.

The Christian foundations of reading instruction

This is one of the course modules recommended by the US National Council on Teaching Quality. It is part of a teacher-training course at Dallas Baptist University, and is for their module on struggling readers.

I have no idea what the Christian foundations of reading instruction might be.

Learner-Centered Outcomes and Objectives:
The major objective of this and all courses on Dallas Baptist University campuses is to support the mission statement of the university and to demonstrate a Christian world view. The outcomes are engagement of study of the content of this course to the glory of God and to the end of developing excellent competencies and skills worthy of Christian service to mankind.
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will be able to:
A. Explain the Christian foundations of reading instruction.
B. Explain the major components of reading.
C. Contrast the five different reading programs and be able to apply each one to given situations.
Etc

The profession of letters

Inspired by the latest XKCD

The profession of letters is so little understood, and so far from being seriously appreciated, that responsible editors will accept and publish magazine articles by women of "title" and "fashion", who prove themselves as ignorant of grammar as they are of spelling. The printer's reader corrects the spelling, but the grammar is generally left as its "aristocratic" writer penned it, in majestic incompleteness. The newspapers are full, not of thoughtful, honestly expressed public opinion on the affairs of the nation, but of vapid "personalities", interesting to none save gossips and busy-bodies.

Marie Corelli, 1905

Someone at the Daily Telegraph has taken today off

... judging by the prominent typos in these two stories:

treament

and
Defnece