• The 1978 BBC radio sitcom The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was not an adaptation as suggested in tomorrow’s pre-printed Saturday magazine (Beast Mode, p42); it was the form in which Douglas Adams’ creation first appeared.
• The headline of an article about the Initial Teaching Alphabet (If you ar æbl to reed thees wurds you miet hav been part ov a faulld inglish teechin inishiativ, 5 July, Saturday magazine, p29) misrendered the word “failed” as “faulld”; it is “fælld”. Also, phonics is mandatory in English primary schools but not in the other nations of the UK.
• The Quiz (19 July, Saturday magazine, p78) asked who used to celebrate the anniversary of his 1658 kidney stone operation; this should have said bladder stone operation.
• Other recently amended articles include:
Vodka seltzers mislabeled as energy drinks trigger product recall
Elon Musk is turning US liberals off not just Tesla but electric vehicles in general
X loses eSafety court case where it claimed Twitter ‘ceased to exist’
Chief of War review – Jason Momoa is an underwater shark wrestler in this gory historical epic
FDA’s top vaccine official leaves post after less than four months
Cherry Vann becomes UK’s first female archbishop after election in Wales
‘A joyous day’: India celebrates return of ancient gems linked to the Buddha
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for Sardinian crispbread lasagne
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