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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Saturday 27 September 2014
The Wrong Word Entirely, # 57
Diagnosis: optical character recognition followed by inadequate proofreading?
Source: Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings, ed. by Stephen Priest (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), p. 181. Note: reprinted 2005 with slightly different layout and mangle!)
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