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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Wednesday 13 May 2015
Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 180
As Dr Faustus investigated shorthand further, he discovered some useful, if mangled, advice:
Of course, the guidance is flawed as well as mangled: someone who can ‘ready’ it is likely to have seen the suggestion too, and will simply seek the second sentence…
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