Thursday 26 September 2013

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 85

This example, from Dr Faustus, comes from a BBC News report that demonstrates several of the ways in which supposedly professional writers can turn tragedy into bathos garnished with unintended and inappropriate humour.

The extract comes from the iPad edition, but this version of the report can also be found online, having been reproduced verbatim (and thus without checking) by 24AllNews. This sentence would benefit from being completely reworked; as it stands, it should have been checked for accuracy before posting and needed better punctuation: 



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