When proofreaders go missing: a blog of errors, designed to demonstrate why sub-editors and copy editors remain important, at a time when they are increasingly regarded as optional extras (all contributions welcome; to follow on Twitter - zmkc)
Wednesday 2 February 2011
Bought Means Paid Money For
The new editor of the Australian Literary Review might want to stop swanking about reading Italian novels in the original - I can do that too, it's not that impressive; what is impressive is vigilant copy-editing:
'Bought'/'brought' is one of easiest typos to perpetrate, and so, perhaps, one of the least forgivable.
ReplyDeleteI missed this one too - I think we're going down the slippery slope here, entertaining the notion that there are some that are 'forgivable', tssk tssk
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