Wrongly pressed

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

In the end there never was any evidence of some black magic acceleration; it is believed a few drivers wrongly pressed down on the accelerator instead of the brake.

While I grapple with Sandwich Anarchists like Peter Kim, Helen takes on Language Heretics who wrongly pluralize the name of Italy's beloved pressed sandwiches.

If the regulation is wrongly set, the keys may be at different heights, some pipes may sound when the keys are not pressed, or pipes may not sound when a key is pressed.

Fincham, who is now ITV's director of television, wrongly told the press at a screening that the Queen walked out of a photoshoot featured in the documentary "in a huff".

There is an increasingly interesting power struggle between the national press – wrongly labelled in past times as "the mass media" – and its democratic digital replacement, "the media of the masses".

Fincham, who is now ITV's director of television, wrongly told the press at a screening in July 2007 that the Queen walked out of a photoshoot featured in the documentary "in a huff".

Single omitted or wrongly added button presses were counted as one mistake.

His lawyer in Tucson, Gregory Kuykendall, will continue to press the claim, in federal court, that Soto-Fong was innocent of the murders and has been wrongly confined for the past thirteen years.

Such as, ahem, this blog post.Correction: The original version of this post wrongly stated that the press release was issued by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Lester had a reputation for easing his rivals out of the saddle, but, for once, Piggott was wrongly blamed by the press and public.

This was especially so at the height of the global financial crisis, which was explained, wrongly, by the Indian press as a consequence of economic liberalism.There is also a deep distrust of businessmen, who are often thought of as rapacious and creating shoddy products and services (in some cases this is justified).