speaking of copyediting, check out this letter to the editor in today's Chicago Tribune and all the interesting spellings of "brake" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/print/chi-vp0621lettersbriefs0jun21,0,25610.story Y'know, spellcheck doesn't help in situations like this much.
--- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tomorrow's column is awesome > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061902920.html > > But can someone tell me what paragraph 10 is? Does it only appear in > the print version? Also how were we supposed to know the correct > spelling of Myers and O'Brian unless we happened to know who they > were? (I should have known Myers, but still). Also copy editor(s) is > spelled incorrectly multiple times--I figured they were all one > mistake because the writer either knew it or he didn't. Except he did > do it right once I think, but I thought that was a fluke. Did anyone > get most of them, like over 45? I didn't even get 30 I don't think. > I worry for the future of newspapers, seriously. >
