Comments on: Why Bother to Proofread? https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/why-bother-to-proofread/ art & design / words & pictures / creativity & inspiration / life & the universe Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: FS https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/why-bother-to-proofread/#comment-658 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:36:56 +0000 http://saxtonstudio.wordpress.com/?p=8298#comment-658 In reply to Kathryn L Ryan.

No! Seriously..?? Oh my goodness. THAT is one for the books: to be a lesson in every editor’s book as to the dangers of using spell check, although how that got by anyone or anything is a bit curious….

of course if you’re gonna mess up, make sure to do it on the front page, huge type.

]]> By: FS https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/why-bother-to-proofread/#comment-657 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:34:37 +0000 http://saxtonstudio.wordpress.com/?p=8298#comment-657 In reply to saxtonstudio.

🙂 It’s a curiosity of the English language and its grammar.

We can say, for example, an historian, but a history. We’re a funny that way.

]]> By: saxtonstudio https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/why-bother-to-proofread/#comment-656 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:56:35 +0000 http://saxtonstudio.wordpress.com/?p=8298#comment-656 In reply to FS.

see how true? all of us are guilty at times!

]]> By: FS https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/why-bother-to-proofread/#comment-655 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:19:40 +0000 http://saxtonstudio.wordpress.com/?p=8298#comment-655 You are not the only one…

… question: “an hulking response” or, a hulking response? 😉

]]> By: saxtonstudio https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/why-bother-to-proofread/#comment-654 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:54:29 +0000 http://saxtonstudio.wordpress.com/?p=8298#comment-654 In reply to Kathryn L Ryan.

No. They didn’t … But yea, they did, didn’t they? Wow!

]]> By: Kathryn L Ryan https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/why-bother-to-proofread/#comment-653 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:49:41 +0000 http://saxtonstudio.wordpress.com/?p=8298#comment-653 Recently in my home town of Willoughby, OH, the Lake County News-Herald, on the FRONT PAGE, reminded people that Daylight Savings Time was coming to an end by admonishing them to “turn back your COCKS tonight!” Yes, true. Front page. Large type. Sheesh.

]]> By: saxtonstudio https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/why-bother-to-proofread/#comment-652 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:15:04 +0000 http://saxtonstudio.wordpress.com/?p=8298#comment-652 In reply to letempspasse.

ha ha! of COURSE!

]]> By: letempspasse https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/why-bother-to-proofread/#comment-651 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:46:12 +0000 http://saxtonstudio.wordpress.com/?p=8298#comment-651 I meant hi-LA-rious of course…. 😉

]]> By: letempspasse https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/why-bother-to-proofread/#comment-650 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:45:27 +0000 http://saxtonstudio.wordpress.com/?p=8298#comment-650 Hilirious ! Thanks for a good laugh !!

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