Monday 7 January 2013

Not Washed or Cooked, # 4

This is an example of the kind of typographical error I particularly despise, not simply because it's sloppy and avoidable, but because it turns tragedy into farce:


The word 'shotting' does, in fact, exist: the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as 'The action of weighting with shot; esp. in Angling, the weighting of the line with shot', though it's not in common usage, and the spellcheckers in Word, WordPerfect and Blogger have all highlighted it as unknown. Surely someone at the DT should have spotted it
 

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