Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 175

From Unintended Saucy Humour comes an uncorrected typographical error in the penultimate line of this extract. Close by, an adjective is incorrectly being used as a noun, which is especially odd given that it is clearly understood as an adjective in the article’s title and that the noun form exists:

Link: Donald W. Katzner, ‘A Neoclassical Curmudgeon Looks at Heterodox Criticisms of Microeconomics’,  World Economic Review, 4 (2015), 63–75 (p. 64)

quiet for quite; neoclassical as noun

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 53

Another example of an old friend (and some of the grammar is dubious too), contributed jointly by Unintended Saucy Humour and Dr Faustus. This is from an academic book which should, of course, have undergone repeated and rigorous checking and proofreading by the chapter's author and the volume's editors (if not by someone at the publishers, since publishers aren't apparently involved in that kind of thing any more):

Source: Teun A. van Dijk, 'Critical Discourse Analysis', in The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen and Heidi E. Hamilton. Malden, MA, & Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, p. 357. Link: Google Books

The checking process is particularly important in this case, since the chapter's author, who is from the Netherlands, is not working in his native tongue.

pubic discourse