Friday, October 28, 2011

Every Editor's Nightmare Typo











The promo drops the "l" from "public," and the day's top headline fails to detect subject and verb disagreement -- all on page one of yesterday's Arcadian.

Copy editors are a newspaper's best friend. Copy editors know the difference between "then" and "than. " They know the difference between "on" and "about."  They know the difference between "request" and "require."


And then, there's the kids' crash blossom on the heels of a genuine post hoc propeter hoc fallacy in the main sheet:



1 comment:

  1. Spell check software is much cheaper than copy editors.

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