Wednesday 26 December 2012

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 15

In keeping with the seasonal theme… The text here (which is undated, although a response was posted in July 2008) needed proofreading and correcting, preferably before the error was copied into both the index and the link address:



The oversight may partly be due to the fact that, as received wisdom and experience show, fonts with serifs (the little details at the ends of some strokes in fonts such as Times or Georgia) are more difficult to read onscreen than fonts without serifs (such as Arial or Verdana). In Myths Encyclopedia's font, especially in the bold format used for the headings, the 'n' might be mistaken for a 'u'.

Coincidentally, however, there actually is a Santa Clan:



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