Businesses that don't bother checking their websites, journalists who write gibberish and balderdash, professionals who can't take the extra time and effort to spell-check and proofread, newspapers that turn tragedy into farce through solecisms, plus the odd guide to solving common grammatical difficulties…
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Thursday 3 January 2013
Not Washed or Cooked, # 3
Sticking with the 'artifical' thread, here are some examples of international science weeklyNew Scientist not spellchecking or proofreading its article titles, a tradition stretching over two decades:
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