Remember that time the Vatican misspelled Jesus on a commemorative coin? Solid comedy gold. Now some sheriff's office in Florida misspelled God on its office rug. But you know what's…
Pretty disappointed today in my editing brethren after the Associated Press' bombshell that it will no longer make the distinction between more than and over. If Facebook and Twitter are…
As I've said before, some misspellings are worse than others. And in this case, of all the words to misspell on this commemorative coin, you really couldn't have picked a…
Yes, well, that's where I am with this post by Kory Stamper, whose blog I found today somehow. I know you're surprised that I would ever be angry about anything,…
I've encountered my share of know-it-alls and fussbudgets in the editing (and writing) world, many of whom probably really believe they are doing God's work and making the world a…
I have taken (and given) many, many editing tests in my life, and one thing has become very clear to me: I will never be able to spell poinsettia. It…
In the past week or so, I've watched two episodes of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." It makes me ashamed a little, but it's not like I planned to…
Distributed Proofreaders is a site to "help ease the conversion of public domain books into e-books" in the mission of "preserving the literary history of the world in a freely…