Klarinet Archive - Posting 000211.txt from 2005/11

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Dan's unique spelling conventions.
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:02:50 -0500

Oliver Seely wrote:
> Proofreading always enhances one's credibility, particularly when one
> is waxing eloquent about the need to spell things correctly. It is
> then that a misspelling of the very word under consideration offers
> more than a little amusement. One would be of a mind to say, "Well,
> the word ought or ought not to be spelled the way our correspondent
> recommends, but he certainly isn't taking the care which he so
> casually demands of others."

The UK newspaper The Guardian used to print the front page only at the
very last minute before the paper went into distribution. This, of
course, was in the days when newspaper print still required mechanical
rather than computer-based typesetting, and everything was done so fast
and so close to the deadline that effective proofreading and corrections
were not possible. The frequent and highly amusing spelling errors even
extended to the name of the paper, which as a result became popularly
known as The Grauniad.

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