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, 18 January 2012
Although There's No Need to Get Obsessive
Like this man (please let me never sit next to him at a party):
oh lordy.....
ReplyDelete'E's a rain gauges and shoovels' man.
ReplyDeleteLet me try that again:
ReplyDelete'E's a "rain gauges and shoovels" man. [It's 1.22 am here - that's my excuse!]
Ooh, is that our Eric? We'd better all talk French. (I presume we are talking about the same thing?)
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