Monday, March 30, 2020

Typo

 
“My qualifications for the job rested mainly on my ability to ferret out spelling and grammatical mistakes in texts. I found that I was a natural, spotting typos with an idiot-savant-esque regularity. I hadn’t had this kind of chance to show off my geeky prowess since winning consecutive junior-high spelling bees.”

—Jeff Deck, grammarian-savant and author of “The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time,” 2010.
 

Editorial Comment: Edditors rule!

 

From the mouths of hounds . . .

















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