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Spoonerisms, they'll get you every time...
A headline out at KING 5 News this morning:
"Bit pulls in Mount Baker attack to be euthanized."
Not a funny story, but I still couldn't help giggling at it.
And for a few more editorial errors... we have a small local (and free) weekly paper called the Kirkland Reporter. Just in doing a brief skim through last week's edition, I found one place where they spelled the word "beach" as "beack" and the headline "Dunn's death blaimed on blood clot."
Okay, forget needing a good proofreader/editor... do they not even bother using a spellchecker?!?! Sheesh.
"Bit pulls in Mount Baker attack to be euthanized."
Not a funny story, but I still couldn't help giggling at it.
And for a few more editorial errors... we have a small local (and free) weekly paper called the Kirkland Reporter. Just in doing a brief skim through last week's edition, I found one place where they spelled the word "beach" as "beack" and the headline "Dunn's death blaimed on blood clot."
Okay, forget needing a good proofreader/editor... do they not even bother using a spellchecker?!?! Sheesh.
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::rant on::
I am SO damn tired of finding myself mentally copy-editing everything from newspapers to novels. I try to ignore stuff, but my brain keeps reminding me that the errors are there. And what I find truly frustrating and can't understand AT ALL is when older or "classic" novels are re-issued and suddenly are full of mistakes! Did someone think it was too easy just to copy what already existed? Aaaargh!
I'll shut up now. ;)
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Make the Bedroom a Warm Recluse
Um . . . unless they're passing along tips about how to turn your bedroom into an overheated small poisonous spider, or alternatively into a chamber that shuns human company, they presumably were striving for
Make the Bedroom a Warm REFUGE
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