Whoops! Can you spot it?
I guess these kinds of oopsies can happen to anyone. But it is not good when it involves sign writing (or a tattoo!). Because then it is too late to go back and start over. I have seen quite a few of...
View ArticleAnother Fail from the Daily Mail – these are journalists?
When I trained as a journalist there were subeditors and fact-checkers who would never have let these horrors slip through. Many of the journalists I worked with during my days as a subeditor were...
View ArticleCommon spelling and grammar errors found on the internet
It’s the teacher/proofreader in me I guess but these are the most common errors I see while meandering around the internet: stationery vs. stationary Stationery means office supplies – I need some...
View ArticleThe Daily Fail is at it again…can you spot them?
The scariest thing is that all of these appeared within a couple of days. I am not a fan of the paper itself but it remains free and the articles are usually simply written. The articles provide...
View ArticleMakes you think
Regarding the double v or double u for w, Swedish uses dubbel v, and the English double ucould have been during days of curvy cursive writing when the w did look like uu
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